Chapter 3
I Background
II Early European Settlements
III Assessment Of Available Water Resources
IV Water Supplies For Goldmining Development
V Irrigation Development
VI Farm And Stock Water Supplies
i Early development - extensive distribution systems
ii The Great Artesian Basin
iii Groundwater research
iv Windmills
v Farm storages
VII Urban Water Supplies
VIII Wastewater Management And Treatment
IX Water Quality Management
X Limnological And Water Quality Research
XI New Techniques In Water Resource Planning And Management
XII Legislation
XIII Conclusion
XIV List Of Abbreviations
XV Acknowledgements
XVI Plantations-high Productivity Resources
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Windmills
Windmills (Fig. 11), once the only source of power for lifting underground water to the surface, were developed and manufactured in Australia at the turn of the century. Griffiths Bros and Co. built some of the earliest windmills in Toowoomba, Queensland, selling the first Southern Cross model in 1903. J. A. Griffiths was cited in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica as a world authority on windmill design. The Southern Cross brand name was later extended to well-boring machines and associated equipment.
Windmills have been progressively improved in recent years and are still in use in remote areas.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Griffiths Bros. and Co.
People in Bright Sparcs - Griffiths, J. A.
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