The Bureau of Meteorology has responsibility for collecting, holding, managing, interpreting and disseminating Australia’s water information. Given this mandate, the Bureau developed the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS) to receive and manage water data and related information, and to support the production and dissemination of a variety of water information ‘products’ and services. AWRIS is designed using a conventional best-practice ‘data warehouse’ architecture. It has an 'ecosystem' of interdependent system components delivering Australia-wide water information services and products to industry managers, policy-makers, scientists, farmers and the general public. The AWRIS Ecosystem is capable of processing daily over 15,000 incoming water data and metadata files from 178 water data providers (DPs) across Australia. The ecosystem captures incoming files, performs validation functions and ingests data to the AWRIS data warehouse. The data warehouse holds over 4 billion observations (growing by approximately 500 million per annum) including streamflow, storages, water trading and markets information. A Data Flow Console provides a range of management functions to control and monitor the flow of files through the Ecosystem. 
The Time Series Data Management component of the Ecosystem holds all time-series data enabling online access for customers and quality control, as well as being the source of truth to downstream Data Marts and to the Water Data Online product. Data Marts provide well-structured data views which together with the Web Map Services enable dashboards for online Water Storage and Water Market products as well as a plain text website.