Who: Southern Rural Water, GWMWater.

Timeframe: Ongoing.

Southern Rural Water and GWMWater will continue to apply a moratorium on issuing new water entitlements in the Millicent Coast Basin. Surface water entitlements in the Victorian part of this basin will be capped at the level of existing entitlements (as at the release date of the Strategy), and will be set as the permissible consumptive volume for streams in the basin. This also depends on South Australia implementing measures to protect the flow in Mosquito Creek and other streams in the basin from any further extraction.

When assessing groundwater applications in the area, the two Victorian water corporations will give careful regard to ensure that downstream flows in the creek are not reduced.