Australia. Landmark 10 year plan secures water for Burdekin Basin | |
Wednesday, 22 August 2007 | |
Water Resources Minister Craig Wallace today released the groundbreaking Burdekin Basin Water Resource Plan, which provides a blueprint for supplying water to the Burdekin Basin over the next decade. Highpoints of the plan are: The creation of over 1.2 million megalitres of new tradeable water allocations to irrigators worth an estimated $650 million to them. It also provides for up to 540 megalitres more water a year for urban, rural and industrial growth in the region. |
This blog tries to explore the lives of rivers and their inter-dependence with the basin communities and ecosystems in a holistic perspectives. It seeks to share the influences of changing natural and anthropogenic processes on the river-scapes and how the resultant changes in river-scapes influence the livelihoods and ecosystems. Taking an integrated approach of river-basin management, it aims to enhance basin-literacy by linking the processes in river-scape, land-scape and human-scape.
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