• Groundwater is an important source of freshwater in many parts of Australia.
• Groundwater plays an important role in agriculture, commerce, industry, watering of gardens and recreational facilities, and for drinking among others.
• Groundwater provides the water for many of Australia’s wetlands and freshwater systems.
• Large tracts of native vegetation across Australia depend on groundwater.
• Groundwater quality can be compromised by overuse of the resource, clearing of native vegetation, land degradation, chemical and nutrient pollution among others.

More Comprehensive

- Groundwater Resources in South
  Australia.
- PDF download - succinct summary of
  issues in South Australia.

SA Government Department of Water Resources
http://www.dwr.sa.gov.au/water/publications/pdfs/
fs5_groundwater_resources.pdf

- ‘Managing groundwater Use’ Fact
  Sheet
- Comprehensive summary of issues with
  diagrams, photos and land
  management issues.

WA Government Water and Rivers Commission
http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/public/waterfacts/
11_groundwater_use/Water_facts11.pdf

- What is groundwater?
- Covering of the major issues with
  diagrams.

WA Government Water and Rivers Commission
http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/public/waterfacts/
8_groundwater/index.html

- Salinity and groundwater in South
  Australia.
- PDF download - succinct summary of
  the main issues with maps and
  statistics included.

SA Government Department of Water Resources
http://www.dwr.sa.gov.au/water/publications/pdfs/
fs6_salinity_of_groundwater.pdf

- Groundwater.
- Comprehensive summaries of
  groundwater issues in NSW.

EPA NSW
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2000/cw/cw_5.4.htm

- Groundwater quality.
- Comprehensive summaries of
  groundwater issues in NSW

EPA NSW
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2000/cw/cw_5.7.htm