Specialist Water Resources and Hydrology Advice
Bewshers have provided expert hydrological and water resources advice in numerous valleys within the Murray-Darling Basin and other eastern Australian catchments for over 25 years.
This work has included:
- expert advice to the Snowy Water Inquiry;
- independent technical auditor of more than 20 hydrological models prepared by NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, the ACT and the MDBA under the Murray-Darling Basin 'Cap';
- peer reviews of hydrological studies associated with major dams including dam-break studies and EISs;
- an independent analysis of water savings in the Murray-Darling Basin for the NSW Treasury;
- peer reviews of various hydrological models of long-term behaviour of irrigation and water management behaviour within valleys for the NSW Government. This has included peer review of environmental flow rules;
- expert hydrological studies of the security of water supplies to a major state owned electricity generator;
- numerous water resources investigations and hydrological modelling studies of the Menindee Lakes system for the private and public sector; and
- various studies of the water yield available from urban water storages and retention basins.