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Strategy Actions List
The actions contained within the Western Region Sustainable Water Strategy are listed below. Click on the actions under each chapter heading to view a detailed summary.
| Chapter 3 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 3.1 | Providing more security to section 51 take and use licenceholders |
| Action 3.2 | Improving information about domestic and stock dams |
| Action 3.3 | Requiring property owners to register new domestic and stock bores |
| Action 3.4 | Monitoring and tracking water use outside the entitlement framework |
| Action 3.5 | Developing local management plans for unregulated surface water and groundwater systems |
| Action 3.6 | Reviewing the process for declaring water supply protection areas and developing statutory management plans |
| Action 3.7 | Improving information sharing about climate variability and risks |
| Action 3.8 | Promoting water conservation and efficiency |
| Action 3.9 | Streamlining the approval of section 67 storage construction licences |
| Action 3.10 | Harvesting high flows |
| Action 3.11 | Extending the reticulated supply network |
| Action 3.12 | Improving opportunities for water trading in groundwater and unregulated river systems |
| Action 3.13 | Encouraging fit-for-purpose use of alternative water supplies |
| Action 3.14 | Balanced approach to managing unallocated water on unregulated rivers |
| Action 3.15 | Staged release of unallocated water |
| Action 3.16 | Updating water supply-demand strategies |
| Action 3.17 | Review of the Victorian Uniform Drought Water Restriction Guidelines and Permanent Water Saving Rules |
| Action 3.18 | Facilitating integrated water planning |
| Action 3.19 | Promoting sustainable water management on dryland farms |
| Action 3.20 | Using consumptive water en route |
| Action 3.21 | Managing riparian land |
| Action 3.22 | Changing environmental management objectives |
| Action 3.23 | Considering water impacts when undertaking planned burning and other bushfire control measures |
| Action 3.24 | Developing capacity for Indigenous involvement in water management |
| Chapter 4 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 4.1 | Revising groundwater management units |
| Action 4.2 | Managing short-term variability in groundwater systems |
| Action 4.3 | Undeclaring water supply protection areas |
| Action 4.4 | Facilitating groundwater trading |
| Action 4.5 | Developing groundwater trade between South Australia and Victoria |
| Action 4.6 | Strategic groundwater resource assessments |
| Action 4.7 | Groundwater/surface water interactions |
| Action 4.8 | Auctioning water where groundwater systems have additional capacity |
| Action 4.9 | Upgrading and refining the monitoring network |
| Action 4.10 | Establishing secure, ongoing funding for future maintenance and renewal of the monitoring network |
| Action 4.11 | Developing Ministerial guidelines for groundwater dependent ecosystems |
| Action 4.12 | Emerging technologies |
| Chapter 5 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 5.1 | State-wide recording of water use by land use changes |
| Action 5.2 | Reviewing models and recommending methods for improving estimates of whole-of-catchment water use |
| Action 5.3 | Amending the Water Act 1989 so that intensive management areas can be declared to control water intensive land use changes in these areas |
| Action 5.4 | Guidelines for rapidly assessing new forestry development proposals |
| Action 5.5 | Considering cumulative impacts of land use in decisions about water use |
| Action 5.6 | Appointing regional committees to assess intensive management areas |
| Action 5.7 | Reviewing implications of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan for managing the water impacts of land use change |
| Chapter 6 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 6.1 | Reviewing operation of the bulk entitlements |
| Action 6.2 | Collaborating to improve efficiency |
| Action 6.3 | Sale of the growth water |
| Action 6.4 | Improving the efficiency of operating the supply system |
| Action 6.5 | Considering more efficient headworks management |
| Action 6.6 | Efficient operation of lakes Lonsdale and Toolondo |
| Action 6.7 | Sharing any additional water savings in the supply system |
| Action 6.8 | Managing the Wimmera-Glenelg environmental entitlement |
| Action 6.9 | Developing rules for diverting river flows for recreation in wet years |
| Chapter 7 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 7.1 | Revised caps on the amount of unallocated surface water available for winter-fill diversions in Otways catchments |
| Action 7.2 | Revising urban water supply demand strategies |
| Action 7.3 | Improving environmental flows in the Gellibrand River |
| Action 7.4 | Investing in integrated catchment management to improve Otway waterways |
| Chapter 8 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 8.1 | Revised caps on the amount of unallocated surface water available for winter-fill diversions in the South-west Coast |
| Action 8.2 | Revising urban water supply-demand strategies |
| Action 8.3 | Preserving cultural values of Lake Condah |
| Action 8.4 | Improved environmental flows for the Merri River |
| Action 8.5 | Investing in integrated catchment management to improve South-west waterways |
| Chapter 9 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 9.1 | Revising urban water supply-demand strategies |
| Action 9.2 | Restoring Lake Corangamite |
| Action 9.3 | Investing in integrated catchment management to improve Western District waterways |
| Chapter 10 | Actions (click to expand/hide) |
| Action 10.1 | Revising urban water supply-demand strategies |
| Action 10.2 | Management of the Upper Wimmera River |
| Action 10.3 | Investing in integrated catchment management to improve waterways |
| Action 10.4 | Development and implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in the Wimmera and Mallee catchments |
| Action 10.5 | Protecting flows in the Millicent Coast Basin |