Assessing the CSIRO Report for the Parliamentary Inquiry The four main issues addressed by the CSIRO are: (i) recharge estimates; (ii) groundwater-dependent ecosystems; (iii) groundwater salinity; and (iv) impacts of mining. (i).Recharge estimates. CSIRO supported the use of higher levels of recharge (90 – 160mm/year) for Uley […]
LETTER TO PORT LINCOLN SEEKING DELAY OF WAP Members of the community have established the EP – Water Action Group and seek to have a better standard of water management in our region through community involvement. Perhaps the most important process in which the community can participate in water […]
Delay of WAP
December 2012 1. The name of the Association is Eyre Peninsula Water Action Group Incorporated referred to herein as “The Group”. 2. In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears – “Committee” means the Committee of Management of the Group. 3. PURPOSE 3.1 To provide an […]
Constitution
The Parliamentary Inquiry How it Started In recent years there has been considerable confusion with claims and counter- claims about water management on EP. This reached the point where Peter Treloar, Member for Flinders (Liberal) believed the only way to sort out the situation, which included the draining of the […]
NRC Parliamentary Inquiry
“Water – a resource or a right?” By John Hyde (farmer) Greenpatch. First published in The Long Run in Spring 2001. “I have been asked to make a comment as a landholder and very concerned resident of Eyre Peninsula, whether I am in support of the catchment levy imposed by […]
Hyde Report
Quote's “A two-litre bottle of Coke requires five litres of water to produce.” Fishman C. “The first water revolution ushered in an era in which water was unlimited, free and safe. Once it was unlimited, free and safe, we could stop thinking about it. The fact that it was unfailingly […]
Quote’s
EP Water Action Group and the EP NRM Board A number of issues have arisen between the Water Action Group and the EP NRM Board. 1. Lack of Community Consultation This is Community Consultation? In all issues of sustainability on Eyre Peninsula our representatives on the EP NRM Board are […]
EPWAG and the NRMB
Critique addendum have been incorporated into the main text of the Report, a number of statements require their own specific response. Appendices Table 1 (page 17) “Recent reductions in rainfall in the last decade are estimated to have resulted in decline in recharge by 20% in the Southern […]
Critique addendum
This is Community Consultation? (Long version) In all issues of sustainability on Eyre Peninsula our representatives on the EP NRM Board are by far the most important. There is no way ecologically sustainable development can occur in our region without the wholehearted understanding and involvement of the community in the […]
Community Consult (L.V)
Community Consultation (Short version) Everyone on EP knows water is our most vital natural resource. Its management now will determine our way of life for future generations. Recent revelations point to the likelihood that water recharge in the basins have been overestimated by more than 100%. This has resulted in […]