Who's watching the water? Experts sound warning on deteriorating groundwater monitoring
5 years, 10 months ago

Who's watching the water? Experts sound warning on deteriorating groundwater monitoring

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After almost a year on the toughest of water restrictions, the town of Coonabarabran, a New South Wales rural service hub, has narrowly avoided running out of water. "It's incredibly important, because if you're running out of surface water that's where you go to see you through the drought situation," she said. "It's been estimated that if we do nothing, based on current conditions, in about 15 years or so half of our monitoring bores would likely have failed," Associate Professor Andersen said. "With increasing pressure in terms of a growing population — the need to supply food, export food — we need to be very clever about how we use our water resources," Associate Professor Andersen said. "I was in Coonabarabran the other day where they've had to put emergency bores in the ground, and I actually was watching the monitoring and the aquifer water levels," Mr Blair said.

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