Primary Industries and Water – Water Entitlements
Can you update the committee on what steps you will be taking as minister to stop a system which effectively gives away some of the best water in the country?
Can you update the committee on what steps you will be taking as minister to stop a system which effectively gives away some of the best water in the country?
Today the Greens tabled a motion to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into Fresh Water Management in Tasmania.
The Greens welcome the Minister for Water’s announcement of new funding for managing Tasmania’s waterways, but repeat our calls for greater action
There has recently been a new project announced for NRET, which is looking at updating the models for catchment yields in Tasmania, which is fantastic news.
Can we confirm that urban water management is now included in the Rural Water Use Strategy?
Integrated catchment management is increasingly being seen as the way of the future by experts, scientists and stakeholders.
Esteemed water quality scientist Christine Coughanowr has identified systemic problems with flow-through salmon hatcheries in the Derwent.
So much has changed since the Tasmanian Greens handed down our last evidence-based and fully costed Alternative Budget late last year.
The hiring of two new river health staff is welcome, but an entirely inadequate response to chronic problems facing Tasmania's waterways
TasWater made a submission to the original position paper the Government put out, and raised a number of issues in the submission.