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    <site:project_Title>Integrating Water and Catchment Planning </site:project_Title>
    <site:project_Body>&lt;p&gt;In most jurisdictions across Australia, developing water sharing plans is a key activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;However, the programs and processes for developing catchment plans like:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;ul&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) plans and targets&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Natural Resource Management plans&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Catchment Action Plans (CAP)&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Regional/Local Environment Plans&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;/ul&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;and those for preparing the Water Sharing Plans required under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/117-national-water-initiative.asp&quot;&gt;National Water Initiative&lt;/a&gt;, seem to be run quite separately, often over different time periods, and not always by the same groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;As a result, a Water Sharing Plan may not, for example, take account of changes in climate or land use, or catchment targets for sediment and nutrient loads to estuaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp&quot;&gt;National Water Commission&lt;/a&gt; believes there is a need for much closer linking between Integrated Catchment Management activities and water planning. Through reference to &amp;ldquo;real life&amp;rdquo; case studies, this project seeks to identify opportunities for integration between these two planning processes.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;More information&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Please contact &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ken.moore@lwa.gov.au?subject=Integrating%20Water%20and%20%2FCatchment%20Planning&quot;&gt;Ken Moore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</site:project_Body>
    <site:created rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-04-07T00:48:27Z</site:created>
    <site:changed rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-04-07T03:04:35Z</site:changed>
    <site:project_Summary>&lt;p&gt;In most jurisdictions across Australia, developing water sharing plans is a key activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;However, the programs and processes for developing catchment plans like:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;ul&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) plans and targets&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Natural Resource Management plans&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Catchment Action Plans (CAP)&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;Regional/Local Environment Plans&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;/ul&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;and those for preparing the Water Sharing Plans required under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/117-national-water-initiative.asp&quot;&gt;National Water Initiative&lt;/a&gt;, seem to be run quite separately, often over different time periods, and not always by the same groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;As a result, a Water Sharing Plan may not, for example, take account of changes in climate or land use, or catchment targets for sediment and nutrient loads to estuaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp&quot;&gt;National Water Commission&lt;/a&gt; believes there is a need for much closer linking between Integrated Catchment Management activities and water planning. Through reference to &amp;ldquo;real life&amp;rdquo; case studies, this project seeks to identify opportunities for integration between these two planning processes.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;More information&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Please contact &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ken.moore@lwa.gov.au?subject=Integrating%20Water%20and%20%2FCatchment%20Planning&quot;&gt;Ken Moore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</site:project_Summary>
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    <site:project_Outcomes>&lt;p&gt;Project outputs sought by the National Water Commission and &lt;a href=&quot;http://lwa.gov.au/&quot;&gt;Land &amp;amp; Water Australia&lt;/a&gt; are those that will provide guidance to others about how to integrate Integrated Catchment Managment/Natural Resource Management and Water Sharing plans. These may include:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;ul&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;a statement of the benefits of integrating water planning into the broader goals of Integrated Catchment Management, and of the problems that can arise from not doing so&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;a description of different approaches to achieve this integration, and examples of what an Integrated Catchment Action Plans or Water Sharing Plan might look like&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;discussion of the appropriate spatial scale for integration of plans, region, catchment, state and temporal scale, 5 or 10 years, taking account of climate change scenarios&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;a list of key steps in the process of developing and then implementing an integrated plan, with critical success or failure points&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;examples of the tools, methods and protocols that might be used in the integration process. These might include tools for multi-criteria analysis, for evaluation, for engagement, for negotiation of agreed outcomes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;commentary about which processes and tools might be most appropriate in particular circumstances&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
    &lt;li&gt;a fully-documented case study of integration, covering the starting situation, processes and tools used, what worked and what didn&amp;rsquo;t, outputs and outcomes achieved&lt;/li&gt;&#13;
&lt;/ul&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Currently discussions are underway with NSW and Tasmania.&lt;/p&gt;</site:project_Outcomes>
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