Editing Great Dividing Range (section)

===Water catchments===
[[File:Dangar Falls Dorrigo (1).JPG|thumb|Some of the most spectacular waterfalls in Australia, such as Dangar Falls at [[Dorrigo, New South Wales]], are located along the Great Dividing Range.]]

The lower reaches are used for forestry, an activity that causes friction with conservationists. The range is also the source of virtually all of eastern Australia's water supply, both through runoff caught in dams, and throughout much of Queensland, through the [[Great Artesian Basin]].

Valleys along the chain of mountains have yielded a water source for important reservoirs and water supply projects such as the [[Upper Nepean Scheme]], [[Snowy Mountains Scheme]] and [[Warragamba Dam]].

The [[Bradfield Scheme]] has been mooted as a way to transport water from the [[Wet Tropics of Queensland]] in the coastal northeast of [[Far North Queensland]] via a series of [[Dams]] & [[Tunnel]]s, southwest to inland dryer regions, including a tunnel through the Great Dividing Range into the [[Flinders River]] then a tunnel into the Torrens Creek in the [[White Mountains National Park]] then flows south into [[Thomson River (Queensland)|Thompson River]] / [[Cooper Creek]], part of the [[Eyre Basin]]. Many other variations have been proposed.

The Great Dividing Range creates the [[drainage basin]]s of the [[Australian south-east coast drainage division]] and the [[Australian north-east coast drainage division]], whose water flows to [[East Coast of Australia|the east coast]] and into the Pacific Ocean, [[Tasman Sea]], and [[Bass Strait]] with the westerly [[Murray–Darling basin]] which flow inland, away from the coast into the interior plains.

Some of the rivers which flow west of the ranges includes the [[Condamine River]], [[Flinders River]], [[Herbert River]], [[Lachlan River]], [[Macdonald River (Bendemeer)|Macdonald River]], [[Macintyre River]] and [[Namoi River]].<ref name="AustraliDotGovDotAu"/> Rivers that flow north into the Murray–Darling Basin from Victoria include the [[Goulburn River|Goulburn]], [[Mitta Mitta River|Mitta Mitta]], [[Kiewa River|Kiewa]], [[Ovens River|Ovens]], [[King River (Victoria)|King]], [[Loddon River|Loddon]] and [[Campaspe River|Campaspe]] rivers. Rivers that flow east into the Pacific Ocean include the [[Annan River]], [[Barron River (Queensland)|Barron River]], [[Brisbane River]], [[Burdekin River]], [[Burnett River]], [[Clarence River (New South Wales)|Clarence River]], [[Daintree River]], [[Fitzroy River (Queensland)|Fitzroy River]], [[Hastings River]], [[Hawkesbury River]], [[Hunter River (New South Wales)|Hunter River]], [[Karuah River]], [[Macleay River]], [[Mary River (Queensland)|Mary River]], [[Pascoe River]], [[Richmond River]] and the [[Shoalhaven River]]. Those that flow south, primarily through Victoria, include the [[Snowy River|Snowy]], [[Cann River|Cann]], [[Tambo River (Victoria)|Tambo]], [[Mitchell River (Victoria)|Mitchell]], [[Latrobe River|Latrobe]], [[Thomson River (Victoria)|Thomson]], [[Yarra River|Yarra]], [[Werribee River|Werribee]], [[Hopkins River|Hopkins]] and [[Glenelg River (Victoria)|Glenelg]] rivers.<ref name="Shaw"/>