South East Queensland Water Strategy 

The South East Queensland Water Strategy is our blue print to secure our long-term water supplies.

Our variable climate and growing population means we need to plan for future generations. The revised draft strategy sets out a new regional approach to meet the region’s water supply needs for the next 50 years and is based on the guiding principles of using less, sourcing more and managing our water efficiently.

It includes:

• Using less water through permanent water conservation measures
• Challenging the community to use even less – delaying the need for additional supplies
• Doing detailed planning for new water sources – to be constructed when needed
• Efficiently managing the way we source and distribute our water

Have your say on our water use target

The strategy relies on the community meeting residential water use targets. Tell us what you think our permanent residential water consumption target should be – 200 litres per person per day or 230 litres? Provide feedback by 12 February 2010 via email or on our online survey.

Read more

• South East Queensland Water Strategy - Executive Summary (PDF, 800KB)
  
• South East Queensland Water Strategy - Full version
  • Table of Contents and Executive Summary (PDF, 827KB)
  • Chapter 1 (PDF, 1.1MB)
  • Chapter 2 (PDF, 1.7MB)
  • Chapter 3 (PDF, 1.2MB)
  • Chapter 4 (PDF, 2MB)
  • Chapter 5 (PDF, 2.9MB)
  • Chapter 6 (PDF, 1.8MB)
  • Chapter 7 (PDF, 444KB)
  • Key terms and references (PDF, 132KB)
• Desalination (PDF, 1.2MB) 
• Desalination site studies
• Permanent water conservation measures