The goal of the Environmental Water Allocation Program is to provide the research that demonstrates and improves the benefits of water allocated for environmental purposes.

To achieve this goal, research projects in this Program are guided by the following five themes.

Theme 1 - Improving, demonstrating and evaluating the benefits of environmental management of stressed rivers

UNS28 - Adaptive management of environmental flows in the regulated Macquarie River

UAD26 - Flow requirements and resource delivery to the lower Murray lakes and northern Coorong

UAD23 - Water allocation to River Murray wetlands: a basin wide modelling approach

Theme 2 - Environmental water allocation in poorly understood aquatic ecosystems across Australia

UME71 - Flows and aquatic plants: an historical and experimental approach

FRD3 - Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

NTU21 - Water regime dependence of fish in the wet-dry tropics

DUV8  - Environmental water allocations required to sustain macroinvertebrate species in ephemeral streams

UTV2  - Innovative techniques for managing multiple threats to high value aquatic systems Project completed

Theme 3 - Holistic water budgets of complete river systems

There are currently no research projects contracted under this theme

Theme 4 - Economic, social and institutional aspects of environmental water allocation

BDA4  - Natural resource 'buy-backs' and their use to secure environmental flows Project completed

UAD24 - With the wisdom of hindsight: reconsidering institutional arrangements for water

Theme 5 - Groundwater dependant ecosystems

REM2  - Impacts of groundwater affecting activities on baseflow variability and ecological response Project completed

REM1  - A framework to provide for the assessment of environmental water requirements of groundwater dependent ecosystems Project completed