Action 5.1

Action 5.1: State-wide recording of water use by land use changes

Who: Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Timeframe: End 2012.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment will:

produce state-wide whole-of-catchment estimates of water use by key land use category that will be included in wholesale water accounts; and
establish a framework and guidance for how estimates will be updated.

These water uses will be reported in the Victorian Water Accounts.

This action can be found on page 132 of the Western Region Sustainable Water Strategy.

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