The Importance
of Water
Water quality is a pervasive
natural resource condition issue throughout the entire region, the
severity of which is high and includes existing impacts and
potential risks to a host of regional assets including biodiversity
and coastal and marine (Tait 2004). Impacts including turbidity,
surface water salinity, eutrophication, organic loading etc. if
ignored have the ability to severely degrade the environment of the
Burdekin Dry Tropics.
Water as a
Natural Resource
Burdekin River’s outstanding
characteristic is its variability. River flow varies between wet
and dry seasons and from one year to the next. While the pattern of
water movement in the Burdekin River catchment is reasonably well
understood, information about the region’s water quality is
limited. The region’s surface water provides essential water
supply for our urban and rural populations as well as important
habitat for an extraordinary range of flora and fauna. Ultimately,
the region’s water resources maintain and potentially impact
on the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
Water in the
BDTNRM
Plan
The Burdekin Dry
Tropics Natural Resource Management Plan 2005-2010
provides a brief overview of water resources in the BDT
region as well as providing
Projects
There are several surface water and
wetland projects currently operational in the region.
To find out more please visit our
projects page.