@import url(/styles/nwc.css); National Water Commission About the Commission National Water Initiative ... Publications Search Your Location: Home National Water Initiative Australian Water Resources 2005 The National Water Commission (the Commission) is developing the Australian Water Resources 2005 (AWR 2005) in accordance with its requirements to undertake a baseline assessment of water resources under the National Water Commission Act 2004 , and the Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Initiative (the NWI) (Paragraph 105(i)). The AWR 2005 is based on existing work by the Parties to the NWI, with further work being undertaken only where required. The Assessment has an NWI focus. The Commission identified five key objectives of the NWI that are most relevant for consideration in scoping the Assessment: Objectives iii), iv), vii), viii), and x). From these objectives, the following three headline parameters were developed to form the basis of the Assessment, each with key questions to be considered by the Assessment: - Water Availability: How much water do we have? How much do we store? What are the variability factors? What are the connections between resources?
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