Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers).

The Bureau of Meteorology has developed the National Aquifer Framework for naming and grouping hydrogeologic units from across Australia to address these jurisdictional differences. The framework is ...

The System contains more than 988 000 bore locations with associated lithology logs, bore construction logs and hydrostratigraphy logs as well as groundwater management areas and aquifer boundaries. 2 ...