The ability to read maps is an important part of catchment monitoring and management. This section provides information needed to read and understand topographic maps. Map reading skills facilitate a greater understanding of catchments, their size, their boundaries and how topographic features and land use capabilities influence waterways.
Maps of Daly River catchment and sub-catchments (Figures 6-10) are provided as regional NT examples. Representative regional maps are also included which identify the location of current (as at 2003) Waterwatch monitoring sites in the NT (Figures 11-13).
Waterwatch accounts for natural processes that drive land management and considers the catchment as a whole when deciding what actions will be feasible locally.
