Looking for water saving ideas
NSW Water Commissioner, David Harriss, today asked communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin to put on their thinking caps to help come up with water saving measures.
The ideas are sought to help offset the social and economic impacts of the proposed Basin Plan.
David Harriss said that he is asking Basin communities for ideas that could save water for the environment or improve the delivery of environmental water to assist in meeting the new sustainable diversion limits under the Plan. These water savings ideas will form part of the NSW Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Works and Measures Feasibility Project.
The project is funded by the Commonwealth Government and will look at eight proposals already nominated by the NSW Government, as well as provide $1.2 million to assist Basin communities to identify viable local water savings and efficiency measures.