Alice Springs Water Resource Strategy
The Alice Springs Water Resource Strategy provides for the best long term use of water resources, balancing social and environmental protection while allowing for economic growth.
It explains the behaviour and interaction of rivers and groundwater and describes the range of regional water needs and how they will be met. It sets a direction for future water resource assessment, planning, development and use within sustainable limits.
- Alice Springs Water Resource Strategy - Volume 1 (pdf 1.8Mb)
- Alice Springs Water Resource Strategy - Volume 2 (pdf 10.1Mb)
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The strategy establishes a clear and simple framework to better manage the water resources of Alice Springs. It seeks to avoid the economic costs and environmental losses due to over extraction, salinity, degrading water quality and to better coordinate government and community activities.
The Strategy consolidates our understanding of the water resources we depend upon. It also descibes our current demands and estimates how much we will need in the future.
The Strategy has been gazetted under the Water Act 1992 and provide a framework for allocating and managing our water resources for current and future generations based on the best available information, socioeconomic analysis, and community input.
The Strategy was delivered in 2006 and will be reviewed in 2011, as directed by the Water Act.
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This diagram illustrates the planning process that informed the development of the current Alice Springs Water Resource Strategy.
