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Water wise appeal BY DEAN LAWSON
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egional water managers balancing supply needs during a long dry-weather cycle have urged the Wimmera-Mallee community to follow a ‘common sense’ approach to permanent water-saving rules. GWMWater stakeholder services manager Andrew Rose said despite no plans for regional water restrictions in 2015-16, a ‘very’ low inflow environment continued across
the catchment. He said bulk storages were holding just under 30 percent of capacity and appealed to the community’s sense of responsibility to observe water conservation. “At this stage the WimmeraMallee Pipeline is doing its job in providing security of supply to towns and farms,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that in the future there might not be a need for restrictions – although at this stage it’s not looking that way. We will review the
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situation on a regular basis. “But bulk-entitlement holders are likely to start the season with a zero allocation, although similar to last year, the 10 northern recreation lakes that receive piped supply will get top-ups from water we have in the ‘bank’. “This won’t impact on the security of other entitlement holders because it is coming out of carryover reserves. This is all based on community need.” The Wimmera-Mallee reser-
voirs hold 556,895 megalitres of water when full. At the last reading, they were holding 153,408 megalitres and sitting at 27.55 percent. At the same time last year they were at 36.65 percent.
Balancing act
Mr Rose said managing water in the Wimmera-Mallee was always a balancing act that required careful and constant consideration for all users. “We live in one the driest parts of the state in a continent
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While urging people to remain mindful of water conservation, Mr Rose also put the piped water-supply circumstances into perspective. “GWMWater’s basic customers – its towns, rural communities and recreational users, use less than 20,000 megalitres a year in unrestricted circumstances,” he said, “Before the pipeline, we needed to send more than 100,000 megalitres down the open channels to meet that demand.”