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Purchasing additional water licences is one tool to secure additional supplies. However, sustainability principles should apply to these purchases.
Meeting the Challenge
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Strategy 58: Water licences will be purchased in the lower Murray area as part of the Strategy to protect the River Murray and the quality of our mains water supplies. This water will be used for social, environmental or economic purposes, particularly in regional South Australia.
Completion date: Ongoing
Lead agency: SA Water |
Reports, progress and links:
An additional 25 gigalitres of water from River Murray has been purchased and 10 gigalitres of this have been sold to the Minister for the River Murray to support achievement of South Australia’s obligations under the Living Murray initiative (refer Strategies 1 and 41).
SA Water will ultimately purchase an additional 10 gigalitres.
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