Please click on here to download Analysis Supply and Demand Melbourne’s Water - Version 4

An explanation of the Y.W.Y.S. Supply/Demand charts (V4, April 10th, 2008) and the consequences of adopting different water augmentation options.

This version still incorporates the new population projections for Melbourne (suggesting an additional 1 million population for Melbourne by 2020). It also has available dam inflows reduced by the CSIRO’s most severe long term figure on top of the last ten years of drought (there will be excesses greater than these shown, if the current drought cycle eases).

Firstly I would encourage anyone interested in understanding the options that Greater Melbourne has for securing its water needs into the future, to look at the policy the State Government presented to us at last election. The document is called ”Sustainable Water Strategy, Central Region, Action to 2055”. You can still ring DSE on 136186 and request that they send you a copy (it’s free but you must ask for it by name).
The government did two years of good research, working with Melbourne Water and the CSIRO, to arrive at a sustainable strategy to secure water needs through until 2055. Unfortunately after the election the government decided to squeeze in a hug