Draft Perth-Peel Regional Water Plan for public comment

The Perth-Peel Regional Water Plan 2010—2030: Responding to our drying climate has been developed by the Western Australian Department of Water in partnership with interested parties to provide a strategic vision guiding sustainable management of the region's water resources and water services.

The Plan sets the strategic directions for the sustainable management of the region’s water resources to the year 2030. It provides a blueprint for the next 20 years for the management, conservation and development of water resources in the region, and describes the challenges and actions needed to respond to these challenges. Among  the challenges identified by the Plan include full or over allocation of some water resources in the Perth subregion, climatic shifts leading to reduced rainfall, streamflows and groundwater levels with the possibility of less rainfall in the future, increasing water demand from a growing population and urban development, and ongoing water quality issues.

The six objectives outlined in the Perth-Peel Regional Water Plan reflect the challenges facing the region’s water resources:

1. Take the drying climate into account in all aspects of water resource management
2. Reduce water demand by using water more efficiently and effectively.
3. Provide water security for public and private water supply consumers.
4. Facilitate the use of alternative sources of water supply.
5. Restore and protect waterway and wetland health.
6. Create water sensitive cities and towns.

The draft Plan is available for public comment until 31 March 2010.

Follow this link to download a copy of the plan or to make a submission.