Please follow the links to
go to the Clean Ocean Foundation’s website www.cleanocean.org
or write an email to Anton and ask for a copy of the report info@cleanocean.org
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 â€Sustainable Water Strategy, Central Region, Action to 2055â€. 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 huge desalination factory as one of the first options, rather than a last resort. Desalination had always been mentioned as a possibility but had been described by the government as being expensive, intrusive and energy intensive, before the election.
Continue reading Analysis Supply and Demand Melbournes Water - Version 4 »
Please follow the link to the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office’s website and read the report which concludes that the Victorian Water Plan “…was finalised with:
• minimal stakeholder consultation
• inadequate levels of rigour applied to estimate the costs, benefits and risks of some of the key component projects.
It is incumbent on the Government to provide full, accurate and timely information on its financial commitments and projects put before the community. The Victorian water plan did not provide this information. There were widely varying levels of rigour around the plan’s costs and expected water savings benefits. The documentation did not explain this. ..”
The VAGOs report: Planning for Water Infrastructure in Victoria
THE AUSTRALIAN - Auditor picks holes in water plan
THE AGE - Auditor finds state water-saving plan too rushed
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Click on here to download the UPDATED Analysis Supply and Demand Melbourne’s Water as a pdf
An explanation of the Y.W.Y.S. Supply/Demand charts (Version 3, March 14 2008) and the consequences of adopting different water augmentation options.
This version incorporates the new population projections for Melbourne by 2020 (Treasury analysis of 2006 Census) and, in line with the governments analysis of potable return from the Eastern Treatment Plant (announced at the same time as the desalination plant), less than half the output is swapped for potable water.
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Please read the discussion paper tabled by the Nationals to address Melbourne’s water future.
To address Melbourne’s future water needs the Victorian Government is proposing to take 75 billion litres of water from the Goulburn Valley – a region already desperately short of water - and build a seawater desalination plant at Wonthaggi. The Government’s plans are expensive leading to a doubling of the price of water for consumers, they will have a negative impact on the environment and are socially divisive.
The Nationals believe a better way forward is to provide effective incentives for industry and households in Melbourne to substitute recycled water and storm water for potable water used for non potable purposes such as flushing toilets, watering lawns and gardens and by industry. There are huge untapped opportunities to do this given that each year Melbourne Water pumps 300 billion litres of treated sewage into the sea and 500 billions litres of rain water falls in the metropolitan area with most of that entering Port Phillip Bay and Westernport as stormwater runoff.
Our solution involves establishing a mandated water substitution target with the aim of replacing 30 percent or 130 billion litres of the city’s current potable water use with recycled water, treated storm water or rain water by 2020.
water substitution discussion paper
