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Section 125 of the Water Act 2007 defines water information as:
(a) any raw data, or any value added information product, that relates to:
(i) the availability, distribution, quantity, quality, use, trading or cost of water; or
(ii) water access rights, water delivery rights or irrigation rights; or
(b) any metadata relating to data of a kind referred to in paragraph (a);
and includes contextual information relating to water (such as land use information, geological information and ecological information).
An area (however described) used by an agency of the Commonwealth or an agency of a State for the purposes of managing surface water or ground water.
Examples of water management areas:
- river basins
- catchments
- aquifers
- water sources
- sustainable diversion limit resource units.
A body of water that is naturally occurring, is impounded by a constructed barrier or is within an excavation, and includes ponds, swamps, lakes, wetlands, weirs, dams, basins, reservoirs and open pits.
The depth of water that would result if solid precipitation were melted.
The product of the average wind speed and the period over which that average speed was measured.