A
A perpetual or ongoing entitlement, by or under a law of a State, to exclusive access to a share of the water resources of a water resource plan area or other water management area.
The specific volume of water allocated to an Australian water access entitlement in a given water accounting period.
D
The total amount of terrestrial electromagnetic energy that falls on a specified unit horizontal surface.
The longwave irradiance emitted from the sky that falls on a specified unit horizontal surface.
E
In relation to water, electrical conductivity is the capacity of the water to transmit a flow of electricity. It's a common measure of water salinity.
The measure of energy received per unit area.
G
Total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted from the sun that falls on a specified unit horizontal surface.
Irradiance emitted from the sun that falls on a specified unit horizontal surface.
Organisations do not have to provide any water information in the grace period. During this time, an organisation can work out what data it will need to give. This includes historical and ongoing information.
The grace period is 3 months long. It starts when we add an organisation to certain categories of the regulations – person categories A–G and L.
The grace period doesn't apply to:
- water information in Category 5 or 7. Organisations required to give this information will always have longer than 3 months between being added to a person category and when they need to start giving data
- a subcategory of information that the organisation was required to give previously due to being named in another category immediately prior. In this way, the grace period applies only once for each type of information.
Organisations start giving data after the grace period expires. The actual start date depends on whether the data is required daily, weekly, monthly or yearly data. For example, if the grace period ends after the start of a week, the requirement to give weekly information doesn’t apply until the end of the next week.
H
The Water Regulations 2008 outline 2 types of water information – historical information, and new or ongoing information.
Historical information is information a person holds before the end of the grace period.
Regulation 7.04 lists certain subcategories of water information and person categories. An organisation listed in these person categories and holding these data during the grace period gives them as historical information. They give historical information within a fortnight after the end of the grace period.
I
The Water Regulations 2008 separate water information into two types:
- historical – information a person holds before the end of the grace period
- new or ongoing – information that comes into a person's possession after the grace period has expired.
Regulation 7.04 lists certain subcategories of water information and person categories. An organisation listed in these person categories and holding these data during the grace period gives them as historical information. You give historical information within a fortnight after the end of the grace period.
New information is the information that comes into your possession after the grace period. You give new information at various specified timeframes on an ongoing/continuing basis.
Measure of the rate of electromagnetic energy received per unit area.
M
Any water storage that has a storage capacity of 1GL or more.
Any water storage in which water is stored for taking and that:
- is not a major storage
- has a storage capacity of 100 ML or more
- is not used primarily for the precipitation of ash
- is not a mine tailings dam
- is not managed by an urban infrastructure operator primarily for the purposes of flood management or pollution abatement.
N
Net global solar exposure plus the net longwave exposure.
Global solar exposure less the reflected global solar exposure.
Global solar irradiance less the reflected global solar irradiance.
Net global solar irradiance plus the net longwave irradiance.
Downward longwave exposure less the upward longwave exposure.
Downward longwave irradiance less the upward longwave exposure.
The Water Regulations 2008 separate water information into 2 types – historical information, and new or ongoing information.
New or ongoing information comes into a person's possession after the grace period has expired.
New information is the information that comes into your possession after the grace period. You give new information at various specified timeframes on an ongoing/continuing basis.
P
In the Water Regulations 2008, persons refers to both private and public entities that must give water information to the Bureau. It includes individuals as well as trusts, organisations, companies, corporations and agencies of state, territory or Commonwealth governments.
R
Total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted from the sun that is reflected from the ground and irradiates a specified unit horizontal surface from underneath.
Irradiance emitted from the sun that is reflected from the ground and irradiates a specified unit horizontal surface from underneath.
S
Any water information in the aquifer framework used by a State.
Any water information in a State's National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) database.
T
In relation to a watercourse, the maximum upstream location on that watercourse at which a tidal variation in water level is observed.
In relation to a water sample, the total concentration of all forms of nitrogen found in the water sample. This includes nitrate, nitrite, ammonia-N and organic forms of nitrogen.
In relation to a water sample, the total concentration of all forms of phosphorus found in it.
In relation to a water sample, the measure of the particles mixed in it.
The measure of the light-scattering properties of water. This is an indicator of the presence of suspended solids.
U
The total amount of terrestrial electromagnetic energy emitted from the Earth's surface that irradiates a specified unit horizontal surface from underneath.
Longwave irradiance emitted by the Earth's surface that irradiates a specified unit horizontal surface from underneath.
Information about the treatment and reuse of urban wastewater.
Information about water in the urban stormwater drainage system.
Information about wastewater that is disposed of through a sewerage system.
Information about water supplied by urban water utilities.
V
The difference between the amount of moisture in the air and how much moisture the air can hold when it is saturated.
W
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.