Water planning processes: lessons, gaps and adoption
Project details
| Objective: |
To improve the way in which water planning is undertaken across Australia. |
| Funding: |
Up to $2 228 500 plus applicable GST from the Australian Government under the Raising National Water Standards program towards cost associated with supporting this full project. This project includes a component of work that already has $175 000 funds approved. |
| Jurisdiction: |
National |
| Commenced: |
November 2007 |
| Project status |
Active |
| Outputs: | Waterlines 6: Water allocation planning in Australia - current practices and lessons learned. |
Progress
About the project
This project will improve water planning processes as outlined in the NWI Guidelines for Water Plans and Planning Processes (Schedule E, NWI), leading to improvements in the way water plans are developed and implemented.
The project will result in the development and dissemination of good practice tools and mechanisms to address current gaps in water planning processes and on-ground implementation of National Water Initiative (NWI) water planning requirements.
Tools and mechanisms will be developed and trialed in parallel with existing jurisdictional water planning processes to ensure they can be adopted and incorporated into individual state and territory water planning frameworks (e.g. practical guides, websites, manuals, databases and seminars).
Three sub projects have commenced and are nearing completion:
- Trialling of water planning tools
- Integration of water planning with catchment planning
- Recognising the broader public benefits of aquatic systems in water planning
Project benefits
This project will:
- comprehensively identify the current gaps in implementing water planning processes in relation to the requirements of the National Water Initiative
- develop good practice tools and mechanisms to address these gaps in a practical sense across all jurisdictions
- provide important information for the benefit of water planning processes across all jurisdictions, and
- lead to improvements in the way water plans are developed and implemented on the ground.