The portal brings together current and historical information, which users can search by town, storage, river, catchment or current location.
The portal is designed to support basin water users and communities through greater transparency and better access to water information. It provides a central source of basin-wide information in one easy-to-use online platform.
It includes customisable data about water availability, water in storages, streamflow, groundwater, allocation volumes, water take, water markets, water quality, and rainfall and soil moisture for the basin.
The latest new features are part of version four of the portal, which is being developed over five main version releases rolled out over three years.
BOM is regularly updating the portal in response to user feedback. For version four, this community-led design process also resulted in the addition of:
- Groundwater levels for nearly 100 representative bores.
- Groundwater trade information.
- New river diagrams for the northern Victoria river system, comprising the Ovens, Broken, Goulburn, Campaspe and Loddon catchments; and for the Border Rivers system, comprising the NSW Border Rivers, Queensland Border Rivers and Moonie catchments. In one view, users can see how the rivers in a catchment are connected and how the water is flowing through key storages and river gauges.
- A what’s new section highlighting portal updates.
BOM agriculture and water general manager Matthew Coulton said the data on groundwater levels for representative bores shows the impact of groundwater use and recharge on water levels in aquifers, and the data on groundwater trade complements the surface water trade information already available in the portal.
The portal is being developed by BOM in partnership with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, and basin state governments.
It was launched in June 2021 and version five will be released at the end of 2023, with further information and features to be added into 2024.
To access the portal, go to: