Water Overview

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Safeguarding Tasmania’s Vital Water Resources

The Water Theme highlights Tasmania’s key water assets, such as rivers, estuaries, wetlands, waterbodies, and coastal and marine systems, which support vital industries like agriculture, fishing, and aquaculture. These water resources also sustain essential infrastructure, including hydro-electric power, drinking water supply, wastewater treatment, and ports. However, climate change, development, land use changes, and ageing infrastructure are increasing pressure on these assets.

Emerging threats like drought, bushfires, and floods present ongoing challenges in water resource management. Effective protection and management of these resources are closely tied to land and biodiversity management, with actions across all Themes, including soil and erosion control and the conservation of aquatic species and riparian vegetation, contributing to the health of Tasmania’s water systems.

Rivers, Floodplains and Estuaries

The movement of fresh surface and groundwater through the landscape sustains ecological, economic, and social values, with the ecological importance of catchments and estuaries, along with current and emerging threats, informing the identification of priorities and actions for rivers, floodplains, and estuaries.

Wetlands and other Waterbodies

Wetlands and other waterbodies, including internationally recognised Ramsar wetlands, support high-value ecological communities and are acknowledged for their conservation value at national and regional levels.

Coastal and Marine Areas

Supporting land managers to improve soil condition and manage vegetation cover to improve natural values, biodiversity, and production outcomes and mitigate emerging risks.

Current NRM Water Projects & Initiatives

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