Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984539

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984539

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Connected Water in Semi Arid Environments. Water is undoubtedly our most valuable resource, and continued economic and social development is critically dependant on water resources. Ephemeral rivers in semi-arid areas that lie above the water table commonly recharge the underlying aquifers. In much of the Murray Basin of southeast Australia, river recharge has provided rare fresh groundwater that is both a potential source of water for irrigation and domestic supply and a buffer to saline regional groundwater entering the rivers as baseflow. This project will allow the risk to these groundwater lenses from landuse changes and river regulation to be quantified as well as constraining whether the water resources may be used sustainably.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 30-09-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $215,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Groundwater Hydrology | Surfacewater Hydrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Land and water management | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Earth sciences | Groundwater Hydrology | Land and water management | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

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