ABBREVIATIONS
The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this product:
| '000 | thousand |
| $m | million dollars |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| ANCID | Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| ASGC | Australian Standard Geographical Classification |
| Aust. | Australia |
| AWRC | Australian Water Resources Council |
| BoM | Bureau of Meteorology |
| BRS | Bureau of Resource Sciences |
| CD | collection district |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| DEWHA | Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts |
| excl. | excluding |
| EC | exceptional circumstances |
| GL | gigalitre |
| GVAP | gross value of agricultural production |
| GVIAP | gross value of irrigated agricultural production |
| GWh | gigawatt hour |
| ha | hectare |
| incl. | including |
| IRSD | Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage |
| kL | kilolitre |
| km2 | square kilometre |
| m | million |
| MDB | Murray-Darling Basin |
| MDBA | Murray-Darling Basin Authority |
| MDBC | Murray-Darling Basin Commission |
| ML | megalitre |
| ML/ha | megalitres per hectare |
| no. | number |
| NHT | National Heritage Trust |
| NRM | natural resource management |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NT | Northern Territory |
| NWC | National Water Commission |
| NWI | National Water Initiative |
| Qld | Queensland |
| SA | South Australia |
| SEEAW | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water |
| SLA | statistical local area |
| t | tonne |
| Tas. | Tasmania |
| Vic. | Victoria |
| WA | Western Australia |