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Water Policy Advisory Notes

A series of 15 water policy advisory notes were prepared on a whole of government basis to assist the water management committees in developing their water sharing plans. These are:

Policy advices for regulated rivers

managing to diversion limits in regulated rivers (PDF - 211KB)
supplementary water access (PDF - 204KB)
floodplain harvesting (PDF - 196KB)
high security water (PDF - 226KB)

Policy advices for unregulated rivers

managing to diversion limits in inland unregulated rivers (PDF - 217KB)

water extraction volumes and daily flow shares in unregulated rivers (PDF - 579KB) diversion limits for coastal unregulated rivers (PDF - 199KB)

Policy advices for groundwater

groundwater quantity management (PDF - 62KB)
groundwater dependent ecosystems (PDF - 204KB)

Policy advice for coastal/estuarine areas

freshwater flows to estuaries and coastal waters (PDF - 224KB)

Policy advices across all water sources

integrating water quality and river flow objectives in the water sharing plans (PDF - 216KB)
conservation of aquatic and riparian biodiversity and threatened species management (PDF - 209KB)
incorporating the results of the weir review program in the water sharing plans (PDF - 199KB)
Aboriginal issues and cultural heritage protection (PDF - 44KB)
water transfers (PDF - 74KB) currently under revision