The Plan, informed by Territorians, provides for a comprehensive and integrated approach to water security for the Northern Territory. The Plan is the first of its kind in the Northern Territory. It provides a lasting strategic framework to guide all water management functions and activities, using water security as the core principle and lens to guide reform efforts into the future. Beneath the framework, the Plan brings together existing efforts to improve water management, and provides a set of priority actions to set the foundation for water security into the future.
The Plan will strengthen water governance in the Northern Territory, by delivering the actions under the Plan and by coordinating all water management functions and activities undertaken by the NT Government across water resource management, water services and utilities, policy, legislation, regulation and water use.
Other strategic frameworks across the NT Government complement the Plan, including efforts to grow the economy in response to the Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission’s final report, the Northern Territory Infrastructure Strategy, the Northern Territory Implementation Plan for Closing the Gap, the Everyone Together: Aboriginal Affairs Strategy, the Remote Housing Investment Package, Regional Growth Plans, Northern Territory Climate Change Response and the Circular Economy Strategy. It positions the Northern Territory to respond to the challenges of the future, including the effects of climate change, global geopolitical shifts and the growing community expectations for involvement and participation in government service delivery and shared water stewardship.,
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Language
English,
Subject
Strategic Water Plan,
Water Plan,
Northern Territory,
Water Security,