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take for consumptive use. The measure may do this either by making water available for environmental management without reducing consumptive take (e.g. through reducing evaporation losses at suitable storages) or by allowing environmental managers to achieve equivalent outcomes more efficiently, thus reducing the amount of water needed for the environment. Supply measures allow equivalent environmental outcomes to be achieved without needing to reduce consumptive take as much as originally anticipated in the Basin Plan.
 The additional water provided by supply measures will be made available for consumptive use (as it will no longer need to be recovered from such use). An adjustment made because of supply measures will increase the SDL (decrease the reduction amount).
 An 'efficiency measure' is one that makes savings in the amount of water required for consumptive purposes. Examples include investment in more efficient irrigation infrastructure. The water saved by efficiency measures will be allocated to environmental use but, due to the nature of efficiency measures, this will achieve neutral or improved social and economic impacts. An adjustment made because of efficiency measures will decrease the SDL (increase the reduction amount).
 An 'additional HEW entitlement' is a water access right, water delivery right or irrigation right that was previously used for consumptive purposes, but will now be used for environmental purposes. An adjustment made because of an additional HEW entitlement will decrease the SDL (increase the reduction amount).

        Part 1—Preliminary

7.01 Simplified outline
(1) This section sets out a simplified outline of this Chapter.
(2) This Chapter provides a mechanism for the Authority to propose adjustments to the SDLs under section 23A of the Act on the basis of:
            (a) new measures that will increase the supply of water or the efficiency of water use (Part 2); or
            (b) new acquisitions of held environmental water that was previously used for consumptive purposes (Part 2); or
            (c) new or improved information relating to groundwater SDL resource units (Part 4).

7.02 Interpretation
(1) In this Chapter:
additional efficiency entitlement, for a surface water SDL resource unit, is a water access entitlement that:
            (a) is sourced from the unit; and
            (b) is held environmental water; and
            (c) is acquired before 1 January 2027 by the Commonwealth or another person in conjunction with, or to take advantage of the water savings achieved by, an additional efficiency measure.
additional efficiency measure means an efficiency measure that has been notified under subsection 7.12(2).
additional HEW contribution has the meaning given by Division 4 of Part 2 (in particular section 7.16A).
additional HEW entitlement means a water access right, a water delivery right or an irrigation right, or part of such a right, specified by the Minister under section 7.08B to be an