1.3.1.2 Compiling assets and developing the water-dependent asset register

The water-dependent asset register was compiled by assessing the water dependency of assets in the asset list for the Gwydir subregion (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 1).

1.3.1.2.1 Ecological assets

Two natural resource management organisations (NRMs) nominated assets through the contribution of data to the WAIT database (Australian Government Department of the Environment, Dataset 2). These NRM-nominated assets were added to the asset database (Table 3). All datasets in the asset database and their associated source organisations are listed in Table 4 together with the number of assets and elements.

Table 3 Natural resource management organisations that contributed data to the Water Asset Information Tool database

Table 4 Datasets for ecological assets in the Gwydir subregion

^aThe asset database (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 1) is a collation of all these source datasets. Some assets may be captured in multiple databases. These replicates are retained in each of the overlapping asset databases as boundaries may differ between databases, and to ensure they are assessed separately by each relevant BA and to enable future assessments to potentially aggregate assessment results for the replicated assets across more than one subregion.

^bTypology and punctuation are given as provided in the metadata for these datasets.

1.3.1.2.2 Economic assets

The datasets used in compiling the economic assets for the Gwydir subregion are shown in Table 5.

Table 5 Datasets for economic assets in the Gwydir subregion

^aThe asset database (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 1) is a collation of all these source datasets. Some assets may be captured in multiple databases. These replicates are retained in each of the overlapping asset databases as boundaries may differ between databases, and to ensure they are assessed separately by each relevant BA and to enable future assessments to potentially aggregate assessment results for the replicated assets across more than one subregion.

1.3.1.2.3 Sociocultural assets

Indigenous sociocultural assets were sourced from existing Commonwealth heritage databases (Table 6).

Meetings have been held with Indigenous knowledge holders in the Gwydir subregion to gain further understanding of Indigenous cultural water-dependent assets. Where possible and appropriate, and with the agreement of Indigenous knowledge holders, these additional Indigenous water-related values will be published in a separate report. Identified assets will be incorporated into an updated water-dependent asset register (available at http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/product/NIC/GWY/1.3).

Table 6 Datasets for sociocultural assets in the Gwydir subregion

^aThe asset database (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 1) is a collation of all these source datasets. Some assets may be captured in multiple databases. These replicates are retained in each of the overlapping asset databases as boundaries may differ between databases, and to ensure they are assessed separately by each relevant BA and to enable future assessments to potentially aggregate assessment results for the replicated assets across more than one subregion.