11. The Great Artesian Basin is an important source of water, the world's largest and deepest fresh water consumption. 12. These became an icon of the Australian rural sector by utilizing the water of the Great Artesian Basin . 13. The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin , one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world. 14. Artesian mound springs form when water from the Great Artesian Basin reaches the surface through cracks in the overlying rock. 15. In an effort to conserve water being wasted from the Great Artesian Basin ten bores were capped at Coorabulka in 2007. 16. It is distilled 7x from grapes harvested in the Barossa Valley and natural spring water collected from the Great Artesian Basin . 17. Conservation groups say the mine could contaminate the Great Artesian Basin , a huge water-bearing basin underlying one fifth of Australia's area. 18. In 1895 the Great Artesian Basin which sits under Moree was tapped and yields over thirteen megalitres of water every day. 19. Finally the mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin are important habitat for a number of plants, fish, snails and other invertebrates. 20. One of the main threats to the mound springs comes from the extraction of water from the Great Artesian Basin for pastoral use.
