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SWIM™ Training

swimlocal™ Webinar February 2025

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The following three recordings are from presentations by SWIM™ Program Manager Dr David Scheltinga providing training on different topics.

About SWIM™

About swimlocal™

About the swimlocal™ operations and web reporting tools

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This presentation by SWIM<™ Program Manager Dr David Scheltinga provides an overview of SWIM™ and swimlocal™ and how to use the various tools. The presentations has been broken up into topics for ease of viewing.

Background Information

2020-21 Indicators and Timeframes

Using the Annual Data tools

Missing Data (MD), Not Relevant (NR) and Zero (0)

Publishing Data

Practical demo of Annual Data tool / Web ADT portal

swimlocal™ Training

How to create reports and dashboards using the swimlocal web reports tool:

How to fix a rejected swimlocal^TM import file:

Documentation

SWIM/swimlocal^TM

• Web data entry portal user manual 2019 (PDF).
• Annual data entry tool user manual 2018 (DOCX)
• Indicator Definitions 2019-20 (DOCX)
• Indicator Definitions 2019-20 (Excel) (XLSX)
• Scheme / Site metadata help file 2016 (PDF)
• SWIM users' manual 2013 (PDF)

Queensland Government Key Performance Indicators (QG KPIs)

• QG KPI definitions 2022 (PDF)

Queensland Government Drought and Water Security Reporting

• Drought Survey Reporting Guide 2019 (PDF)
• 4-Monthly Water Security Survey Reporting Guide 2020 (PDF)

National Performance Framework (NPR)

• NPR Indicators and definitions handbook 2022-23 (PDF)
• NPR Reporting Memo 2022-23 (PDF)
• NPR release notes 2017-18 (PDF)
• Greenhouse Gas Calculator (NSW) 2019 (Excel) (XLSX)
• Technical guidelines for the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions by facilities in Australia (2017) (WORD) (DOCX) 
• National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Wastewater Greenhouse Gas calculator (2017) (XLSX)

National NPR Indicator Review 2023

DRDMW Fact Sheet: Changes to reporting requirements - Participation in the National Performance Report

2023-24 Reporting

• NPR Indicators and Definitions Handbook (PDF)
• NPR Reporting Memo (PDF)

2024-25 Reporting

• NPR Indicators and Definitions Handbook 2023 v1.1 (PDF)
• NPR Release Notes 2023 (PDF)
• Guidance memo <10,000 connections (PDF)
• Guidance memo >10,000 connections (PDF)
• Guidance memo Bulk Water Authorities (PDF)

Bureau of Meteorology Category 7 annual water reporting (BoM Cat 7)

• BoM Category 7 Handbook 2020 (PDF)

SWIM^TM Data Retrieval Tool

• SWIM^TM data retrieval tool user manual 2014 (PDF)

Historical Information

• List of all indicators reported via SWIM^TM (Excel) (XLSX)