• What do we use water for? Water for consumption, irrigation, industry and recreation comes from many sources.
• What types of infrastructure and investment is required to supply water for our needs?
  - Domestic use of water: How does the water supply reach the tap in drinking condition?
  - Industrial/commercial uses such as power plants, market gardens, cooling machinery
    and others.
  - Recreational uses such as fishing, skiing, watering playing fields and golf courses.
  - Government water management, (including watering regimes and water management
    infrastructure - gardens and reserves, wetlands, roadside verges, new housing and
    industrial developments).
• What practices and technologies are being adopted to protect and restore water quality and catchments?
  - Constructed wetlands.
  - Aquifer storage and recharge.
  - Water saving devices.
  - Biodiversity protection.
• Why is South Australia so reliant on the Murray River and the Mount Lofty Ranges watershed for water supply?
• Why do degraded catchments create greater expense in supplying and treating water for consumption, industry, irrigation and recreation?
• What are the Impacts of weirs and dams in the Murray River and the Mount Lofty Ranges watershed?

- Managing the water cycle.
- Brief overview of managing water supply.

Sydney Water
http://www.sydneywater.com.au/html/education/
Water_Cycle/index.cfm