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<DIV id=standalone><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have developed a new data transfer format which enables the Bureau to produce a clearer picture of Australia’s water resources.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=section id=body><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Developed jointly by CSIRO’s Water for a Healthy Country Flagship and the Bureau’s Water Division, the Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) provides the Bureau with the means to more efficiently collect and process the 6 million data files of water resource information supplied by more than 200 organisations over the past 12 months.</FONT><BR><BR><A href="http://www.csiro.au/news/Water-Data-Transfer-Format.html"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt" size=1>http://www.csiro.au/news/Water-Data-Transfer-Format.html</FONT></A><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV> </body>
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