Water is life.

Sound management of our water resources is essential to maintain community wellbeing and to protect biodiversity and ecological systems.

We are asking the parties to commit to:

Providing strong State Government led advocacy to ensure that the Murray Darling Basin Plan returns the equivalent of 3200 GL to the environment by the 2024 reconciliation date, including a clear, public commitment to voluntary buybacks prior to 2024 to ensure the water is returned in full.

Investigating the possibility of a ‘Super Park’ within the Coorong & Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar site, including the Coorong National Park and the Lawari Conservation Park at the Murray Mouth to better protect and help showcase this vital river habitat.

Creating an urban water security plan that ensures:

  • The reinstatement of requirements in the State Building Code to connect rainwater tanks for internal household use,
  • A comprehensive review of the Planning & Design Code to ensure greater prominence and protection of Water Sensitive Urban Design, and
  • Governance structures are addressed to enable Government, Councils and other agencies and authorities to deliver true integrated water management and stop treating recycled, stormwater and mains water in isolation.

Working with landholders to create 1,000 hectares of ‘regional recharge farms’[1] in agricultural regions of the state by 2025.

Prohibiting exploration and mining activities that have the potential to impact groundwater resources including the Great Artesian Basin.

[1] a recharge farm is a location in the landscape where water is actively held in natural wetland features for the purposes of passively increasing recharge to, or reducing the depletion of, the shallow unconfined aquifer.

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