The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has launched a new public website giving communities in the Murray-Darling Basin access to the science behind how and why water is being used to benefit the environment.
Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, Skye Wassens said the website, Flow-MER, brought together the work of independent scientists from some of Australia’s leading regional universities and research institutions to collect evidence on how Commonwealth water for the environment was making a difference to the Basin’s rivers, wetlands and floodplains.
“No matter where you live in the Basin, you can look at the Flow-Monitoring Evaluation Research website, or Flow-MER for short, to find out where scientists are monitoring environmental flows near you,” Dr Wassens said.
“There are plenty of great photos and some terrific stories about frogs, turtles and other wildlife that we meet when we are out in the field,” she said.
The Office said the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) had been commissioned to create the Flow-MER website for Basin communities.
It said that through the Flow-MER program, scientists with a range of expertise were able to share their research findings with managers of environmental water.
The Office said more than 120 scientists were working on Flow-MER at sites across the Murray-Darling Basin, often with the involvement of Traditional Owners, local water managers and landholders.
The Flow-MER website can be accessed at this PS News link.
