Water data: improving access and use

Tony Boston Assistant Director (Climate and Water Data) Thanks for your data

• Albury City Council • Armidale Dumaresq Council • Council • Bathurst Regional Council • Council • Council • Border Rivers-Gwydir Catchment Management Authority • Council • Cabonne Shire Council • Central Tablelands Water • Central West Catchment Management Authority New South Wales Thanks for your data

• • City Council • Coleambally Irrigation Co-operative Limited • Cooma- Council • Delta Electricity • Department of Finance and Services • Department of Primary Industries • Dubbo City Council • Eraring Energy • Essential Energy • Council • Gloucester Shire Council New South Wales Thanks for your data

• Goldenfields Water County Council • Gosford City Council • Goulburn Mulwaree Council • • Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority • Hunter Water • Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority • Council • Kempsey Shire Council • Lachlan Catchment Management Authority New South Wales Thanks for your data

• Lismore City Council • Council • Lower Murray Darling Catchment Management Authority • Macquarie Generation • MidCoast Water • Mid-Western Regional Council • Murray Catchment Management Authority • Murray Irrigation Limited • Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority • Murrumbidgee Irrigation Limited New South Wales Thanks for your data

• Nambucca Shire Council • Namoi Catchment Management Authority • Newcastle City Council • Catchment Management Authority • NSW Office of Water • Office of Environment and Heritage • Orange City Council • Council •-Hastings Council •Queanbeyan City Council •Riverina Water (Riverina Water County Council) New South Wales Thanks for your data

• Rous Water (Rous County Council) • Shoalhaven Water (Shoalhaven City Council) • Snowy Hydro Limited • Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority • State Water Corporation (State Water) • Sydney Catchment Authority • Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority • Sydney Water Corporation (Sydney Water) • Tamworth Regional Council New South Wales Thanks for your data

• Council • Council • Council • Council • Wagga Wagga City Council • Council • Western Catchment Management Authority • Council • Wollongong City Council • Council •

Water Storage app

Modernisation Fund highlights

• $78.1 M funds allocated • 467 projects • 82 organisations • 600 monitoring sites telemetered • 145 Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers Distribution of Modernisation Funds

WA NT QLD 10% 5% 21% SA 10%

TAS NSW 9% VIC ACT 28% 16% 1% Funding by theme

A. Equipment and networks B. Data management systems I G H C. Data QA/QC F 0.3% D. Data rescue 1.9% 4.3% 5.7% E. AHGF, NGIS E 11.6%

D A 2.7% 51.7% C B 1.7% 20.0% F. Water accounting G. Coordination H. Standards I. Hydrographic training Case study: New South Wales State Water Corporation

Funding $385,000 in Rounds 2, 3 and 5 The project Bathymetric Surveys of ten key New South Wales storages

Benefits More accurate calculation of available water in storages based on improved capacity tables Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) evolution

WDTF 1.0.1 Oct 2010

WDTF 1.1 early 2012

Start work Jul 2008 Data delivery formats

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Other Case study: New South Wales Office of Water

Funding: $240,000 The project • WDTF import and export tools Round: 3 NSW developed in Hydstra • Developed a generic WDTF export tool from Excel and Access • Tools available for use by all Case study: benefits and outcomes

Up to 70% of national Enables data sharing hydrographic time between Hydstra-user series data held in organisations in Hydstra common format

Widely used amongst Organisations provide industry to store and data in preferred manage data standard format

Tools also for smaller data providers Lead water agency data loading

1. Confirm that each Data Provider is successfully exporting their data in WDTF

Agency 2. Ingest into AWRIS Hydstra database 3. Confirm that the Data Providers data is being successfully represented in the AWRIS database

Hydstra AWRIS WDTF WDTF AWRIS INGEST - 1B database Export

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• Mandated through Water Act Regulations • Commencing July 2013 for lead water agencies • Maintained by the Bureau as a community standard • Bureau will provide documentation, tools for validation and use International standardisation

• Open Geospatial Consortium WaterML 1.0 – Hydrology Domain Working Group EA XML • Initial focus: timeseries observations – WaterML2.0 part 1 – OGC Technical Committee recommendation early 2012 A WaterML 2.0

xHydro WDTF Harmonising water terminology

Accessible Storage Capacity = Active Storage Capacity + Inactive Storage Capacity

Total Storage Capacity = Active Storage Capacity + Inactive Storage Capacity + Dead Storage Capacity Water Information Dictionary Open government Data licensing Data standards

• National Water Information Standards for – Water features – Observational data • These will be community standards – led by the Bureau – with input from Australian water agencies Benefits

Improved water data interoperability

Free and open access to water information

Increased data availability and use Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric)

Elizabeth McDonald Geofabric Project Manager 12,000,000 +

1,927,331 What is the Geofabric?

1. Evolving and consistent spatial data product … 2. that identifies important water features in the landscape … 3. as well as the connections between these features … 4. and supports multiple representations. 5. It is a framework to underpin water information activities 1. Evolving and consistent spatial data products

Geofabric products Phased release plan Reporting Regions 1. Geofabric Phase 1 V1.0 Reporting - released 2010 Catchments 2. Geofabric Phase 2 V2.0 Catchments - released 2011 3. Geofabric Phase 3 Network - test release 2012 4. Geofabric Phase 3 Cartography - full release 2013

Groundwater 2. Identification of important water features

River confluences River outflow to sea

Inland sink Monitored features

Image Source: Bing Maps 3. Connections between water features

Connected features with different representations 4. Supporting multiple representations of water features

Complex vs Simple Geography Complex vs Simple Topology

Contracted Node The value of the Geofabric?

5. To underpin our water information activities

Visualisation and mapping Catchment contributing areas

Hydrological modelling Water reporting Where we are now … Where we are going … Thank you …

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