Associate Professor Justin Brookes illustrates the challenges facing water resources in South Australia.

1. Environment Institute Science Seminar Series 2009 Adapting to a drier Australia: The challenges facing water resources Presented by: Assoc. Prof. Justin Brookes

2. Acknowledgements Kane Aldridge Dan Rogers George Ganf David Paton

8. The realities of the current situation

12. Invertebrate Distributions MM NL SL

13. Southern most end

14. Links to food: Black Swan

15. Salinity tolerance

16. Salinity responses

17. CLLAMM ecology Salinity NORTH LAGOON 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 Scenario 1: ‘Do Nothing’ Scenario 2: Minimum Flow Scenario 3: Low Flow Scenario 4: Medium Flood Scenario 5: Large Flood SOUTH LAGOON 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 Scenario 1: ‘Do Nothing’ 1 Scenario 2: Minimum Flow Scenario 3: Low Flow Scenario 4: Medium Flood Scenario 5: Large Flood

18. Pumping options

20. Lower Lakes

22. Ficopotamus

23. Acid sulfate soils

24. Tookayerta Creek Finniss River Currency Creek Point Sturt Pen 6 – Goolwa Channel Project Photo - March 2008 (minus 0.43 m AHD) (A) $11.5 m, 6 wks Laffin Point (F) $3.3 m, 8 wks (F) $2.14 m, 8 wks (C) $13 m, 12 wks (D) $15.5 m, 20 wks (G) $45m, 32 wks (E) $100m, 50 wks Stony Point Clayton Mud Islands Mundoo Is Hindmarsh Is Dunn Lagoon Goat Is Goose Is Rat Is

25. Pomanda Island Weir Plus 0.1 m AHD

27. A future scenario CLLAMM ecology

28. 700km Bloom from Albury to Swan Hill Main River Channel

30. Propping up ecosystems Chowilla Horseshoe pre- and post-watering. CHOWILLA FLOODPLAIN

34. Regulator

35. Chowilla 5,655 ha inundated 6000 ML/day 10,000 ML/day +regulator mn Simulate 60,000 ML/day 9559 ha

41. Environment Institute Science Seminar Series 2009 Shifting species distributions under climate change Presented by: Professor Miguel Araújo Director, BIOCHANGE Lab National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain