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Your Water Your Say is an independent organisation who want to bring democracy back to our Governemnt's decision making processs.
All future water provision in Victoria should be achieved through environmentally sustainable means and therefore desalination is rejected as an option for Melbourne's water management issues.
Your Water Your Say aim to give a voice to the Victorian community of concerned citizens who oppose the construction of a desalination plant to solve Melbourne?s water management issues.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Dear All,

We all have been working relentlessly to establish the groundwork for our anti-desalination campaign. Thank you for your support.
We will try hard and keep you updated on this site about our progress.

These are our resolutions as agreed upon and endorsed at the public meeting in Wonthaggi on the 12th of July 2007:

Resolution 1:

We are totally opposed to the development of the desalination plant on the Bass Coast on the following grounds:
1. Desalination is an energy intensive and unnecessarily costly means of addressing water shortages. Any renewable energy offsets need first to be directed to reducing the impact of current levels of energy use.
2. Potential risks to marine and marine park environments.
3. Potential risks to aboriginal heritage.
4. Conflict with State Government and Local Government policies, especially marine protection, Victorian Coastal Strategy, Victorian Coastal Spaces Study and Bass Coast Strategic Coastal Framework.
5. Inappropriate siting of the plant with potential detrimental effects on pristine coastal space, view lines etc with the likelihood of destroying the very values (unspoiled coastline between townships) which attract visitors and residents to the Bass Coast.

Resolution 2:

This meeting requests immediate consultation by the government with the local community, beginning with the representative committee set up by this meeting to address the issues listed on the first resolution.

Resolution 3:

We seek the support of the Shire Council in furthering these aims.

Our Mission

All future water provision in Victoria is achieved through environmentally sustanible means and therefore desalination is rejected as an option for Melbourne’s water management issues.

Our purpose

To give a voice to the Victorian community of concerned citizens who oppose the construction of a desalination plant in anyone’s backyard, to solve Melbourne’s water management issues.

About us

The Your Water Your Say Action Group are a dedicated group of families and individuals concerned that the future water provision in Victoria is achieved through environmentally sustanible means. We have all been working relentlessly to establish the groundwork for our anti-desalination campaign.
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Here are some of the core people that have dedicated and devoted countless hours in our campaign for a sustainable future:

Steering committee

Andrea Bolch President
Pat GordonSecretary
Pat BarrTreasurer

Spokesperson(s)

Chris Heislers 0419 556 381
Andrea Bolch 0400 065 253
Mike Neighbour 0417 374 439