Water planning
April 2008
This statement outlines our position on water planning.
Water planning is central to dealing with the challenges of stressed water systems and to determining how we share valuable water resources between competing uses.
Water planning processes have not always been of the necessary high standard and the roll out of completed water plans has been too slow.
The National Water Commission is supporting efforts to improve water planning efforts through targeted investments in projects. The Commission published a Waterlines paper: Water Planning Processes and Lessons Learned to highlight lessons learned by individual States and Territories in the interests of sharing these experiences more widely to advance water planning in Australia.
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