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WaterNSW is a New South Wales Government–owned statutory corporation that is responsible for supplying the state's bulk water needs, operating the state's river systems and dams and the bulk water supply system for Greater Sydney and providing licensing and approval services to its customers and water resource information.
Water storage, treatment and bulk supply for Brisbane is handled by SEQ Water, which sells on to Brisbane Water for distribution to the Greater Brisbane area. Water for the area is stored in three major dams; Wivenhoe Dam on the Brisbane River, Somerset on the Stanley River and North Pine on the North Pine River.
In recent years, water control structures have been installed to assist with regulation of water levels in the canal and to cater for varying flow rates. [ 4 ] It is estimated that the Upper Nepean System and, hence, the Upper Canal System, supplies in the range of 20 to 40 per cent of Sydney's daily demand for potable water.
Level 5 water restrictions in Goulburn in 2006. Pejar dam, the water supply for Goulburn in November 2005. Water restrictions have been enacted in many cities and regions in Australia, which is the Earth's driest inhabited continent, [1] in response to chronic water shortages resulting from the widespread drought.
In late March 2021, a series of floods affected the east coast of New South Wales from the North Coast to the Sydney metropolitan area in a disaster described by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian as a "one-in-100-year event", in addition to being the most significant flood event in 60 years in parts of the state. [49]
Mangrove Creek Dam, a concrete faced rockfill embankment dam, is the primary reservoir for water supply to residents of the Central Coast in New South Wales, Australia.. The dam, with a capacity of 190,000 megalitres (6,700 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) and fed by a catchment area of 101 square kilometres (39 sq mi), is operated by the Central Coast Water Corporation and supplies approximately 93 per cent ...
Pindari Dam is operated in conjunction with Queensland's Glenlyon Dam, located on the Dumaresq River, to supply NSW water users in the Border Rivers valley. [1] The name of the dam originates from the Aboriginal words meaning "high rock" and is the name of an early pastoral run which adjoined the reservoir. [4]
Water security in Australia became a major concern in Australia in the late 20th and early 21st century as a result of population growth, recurring severe droughts, effects of climate change on Australia, environmental degradation from reduced environmental flows, competition between competing interests such as grazing, irrigation and urban water supplies, and competition between upstream and ...