Sustainable Water Strategies
The Our Water Our Future action plan committed to undertaking regional sustainable water strategies to plan for long-term water security across Victoria.
Each sustainable water strategy sets out a long-term regional plan to secure water for local growth, while maintaining the balance of the area's water system and safeguarding the future of its rivers and other natural water sources.
In each case the sustainable water strategy will provide a stock-take of all the water resources available within a region, and outline the planning and actions needed to respond to risks and ensure we have secure water for our communities, business, industry and the environment into the future.
The four regions the strategies encompass are:
- Northern Region (the River Murray system and its tributaries- Loddon, Goulburn, Broken, Campaspe, Kiewa and Ovens systems)
- Central Region (West Gippsland, Port Phillip, Westernport, Western, Central Highlands and Barwon Regions)
- Western Region (Wimmera, Mallee, Millicent, Portland, Otway, Glenelg, Hopkins and Avoca Basins)
- Gippsland Region (South Gippsland, Latrobe, Thomson, Mitchell, Tambo, Snowy and East Gippsland Basins).
The strategies are being developed by the Department of Sustainability and Environment in partnership with rural and urban water corporations, catchment management authorities, other key regional stakeholders, interest groups and communities.