We finished our Study Tour of the Murray-Darling Basin after 11 days journey. Today is the last day. Considering climate change, with changes in land use, atmospheric CO2 concentration, Nitrogen deposition and acid rain, is an important and complex global environmental issue. The International Water Centre arranged 5 relative topics in Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence (QCCCE). Here we understood basic concepts of climate change, emission scenarios, climate sensitivity, global climate models, developed climate software and international response.
Meeting at QCCCE
Water is a major component of the earth’s climate systems and climate change will affect sea levels, ice caps, precipitation, water vapor, flow regime change in season and quantity, evaporation and runoff. It has the significant role to sustain utilization of water resources and keep healthy life of the Yellow River that study impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources. QCCCE have carried out some projects using distribution models with a 25km grid, which gave us helpful suggestions, especially the topic Dr Normal Treloar presented, QCCCE software used in China.
Furthermore, Ross Krebs, Regional Manager in Queensland Natural Resource and Water, introduced the water resource management and use at different levels in Australia, such as Commonwealth, State, Local Government and water users, and water proportion in the six sub-catchments boundary, Paroo, Nebine, Warrego, Condamine Balonne, Moonie and Border River in Queensland. Among the contents, we compared the establishment of Water Caps in the Murray-Darling Basin and the water allocation scheme in the Yellow River basin, we discussed exploitation and utilization of groundwater and groundwater entitlements, licenses and bores in the state. All in all, both NRW in Queensland and YRCC have similar objectives: to ensure community involvement and transparent decision making, to balance the water resource between consumption needs and environmental flow, and to keep a healthy river system.
Furthermore, Ross Krebs, Regional Manager in Queensland Natural Resource and Water, introduced the water resource management and use at different levels in Australia, such as Commonwealth, State, Local Government and water users, and water proportion in the six sub-catchments boundary, Paroo, Nebine, Warrego, Condamine Balonne, Moonie and Border River in Queensland. Among the contents, we compared the establishment of Water Caps in the Murray-Darling Basin and the water allocation scheme in the Yellow River basin, we discussed exploitation and utilization of groundwater and groundwater entitlements, licenses and bores in the state. All in all, both NRW in Queensland and YRCC have similar objectives: to ensure community involvement and transparent decision making, to balance the water resource between consumption needs and environmental flow, and to keep a healthy river system.
Presentation by QNRW
After Ross’s introduction, due to their interests on the Yellow River, Mr. Song Ruipeng gave a presentation about general conditions of the Yellow River. In the happy exchanges, we finished the whole field trip. These two weeks are a memorable period in which we have achieved much not only the knowledge and information, but also the friendship.
Song Ruipeng's Presentation
By Fan Jie & Jin Shuangyan
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