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Culture and Conservation Based Economy
In August, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance's (NAILSMA) facilitator Hugh Wallace Smith gave a presentation to the National Water Commission about the Indigenous community water facilitators network, explaining how the project is helping to build a conservation and culture-based economy in Northern Australia.
Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-Arid Regions
Professor Poh-Ling Tan from the Water Planning Tools project gives an overview of the WPT project to the 2nd International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi Arid Regions.
Basin Plan focuses attention on water planning
With the public release of the Guide to the Proposed Murray-Darling Basin plan scheduled for 8 October, unprecedented levels of media and public scrutiny is being directed towards water planning in Australia.
Call for submissions on review of Australian water reform
The National Water Commission has released a discussion paper as the first stage of its 2011 Biennial Assessment of water reform in Australia. The discussion paper invites stakeholders and other interested parties to make a submission to assessment process. The assessment will report on recent progress in implementing the National Water Initiative (NWI), and will comprehensively review the NWI including the extent to which it has improved the sustainable management of Australian water resources, contributed to the national interest, and had an impact on regional, rural and urban communities.
Water Planning in New South Wales delayed until mid-2011
The New South Wales Water Commissioner says it will be at least the middle of next year before water sharing plans are reintroduced in the state. Water sharing plans are developed in irrigation areas so that a balance is met between agricultural and environmental water needs.
People and Water Planning Tools
Researchers of the Water Planning Tools project gave a presentation entitled "People and Water Planning Tools" at the 2010 Australian Irrigation Conference in Sydney in June. Download the presentation here.
Mary River Basin Plan released by Queensland Government
The Queensland Government has released draft plans for water allocation in the Mary Basin in south-east Queensland, which will change how water is distributed across the region.
An end to the drought in the Southern Murray Darling?
According to this article in The Australian, water allocations in the Southern Murray Darling Basin are the highest they have been in five years.
National Workshop for Water Planners
The Water Planning Tools team hosted an open-space workshop with water planners from around the country in the last week of July, in an attempt to both review our project findings with water agencies and to allow water planners across Australia to identify and discuss key issues in their practice. The proceedings from this workshop are available for download.
Drought over but irrigators wait on water allocation
The entire south-west of New South Wales is officially out of drought for the first time in around a decade.
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