SWIM Help & Information

SWIM Training

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 import file:

Documentation

SWIM/swimlocal

• 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 Data Retrieval Tool

• SWIM data retrieval tool user manual 2014 (PDF)

Historical Information

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