3.5 Reviewing the process for declaring water supply protection areas and developing statutory management plans Minister for Water, DELWP, SRW Achieved and completed 3.6 Providing more security to section 51 take and use licence holders Minister for Water, SRW, CMAs Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 8.2 3.7 Improving information-sharing about climate variability and risks DELWP Achieved and ongoing 3.8 Upgrading and refining the groundwater monitoring network DELWP, SRW, environmental managers Achieved and completed 3.9 Establishing secure ongoing funding for future maintenance and renewal of the monitoring network DELWP, SRW, environmental managers Achieved and ongoing 3.10 Amend the Water Act 1989 so intensive management areas can be declared to control water intensive land use changes DELWP Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 8.4 3.11 Statewide recording of water use by land use changes DELWP Partly or not yet achieved 3.12 Improving information about domestic and stock dams Minister for Water, DELWP, SRW Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 8.4 3.13 Requiring property owners to register new domestic and stock bores Minister for Water, DELWP, SRW Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 8.4 3.14 Monitoring and tracking water use outside the entitlement framework DELWP Achieved and ongoing 3.15 Revising groundwater management units (GMUs) DELWP Achieved and completed 3.16 Considering adverse impacts of existing oil and gas extractions Victorian Government Partly or not yet achieved 3.17 Consistent groundwater licensing requirements for new quarries and mines DELWP Partly or not yet achieved 3.18 Understanding and monitoring the risk of coastal subsidence DELWP Achieved and completed 3.19 Emerging technologies DELWP, DEDJTR Achieved and ongoing 3.20 Considering water impacts when undertaking planned burning and other bushfire control measures DELWP Achieved and ongoing Chapter 4: Promoting sustainable use of water # Action Responsible organisations Status
4.1 Promoting water conservation and efficiency DELWP, SRW, UWCs, individuals Achieved and ongoing 4.2 Improving opportunities for water trading in groundwater and unregulated river systems DELWP, SRW, DEDJTR, CMAs Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 9.7 4.3 Harvesting high flows DELWP, SRW, CMAs Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 8.3 4.4 Streamlining the approval of section 67 licences to construct storages Minister for Water, DELWP, SRW, CMAs Partly or not yet achieved 4.5 Encouraging fit-for-purpose use of alternative water supplies DELWP, UWCs, RWCs Being progressed through Water for Victoria WfV 5.1 4.6 Extending the reticulated supply network DELWP, UWCs Achieved and ongoing 4.7 Promoting sustainable water management on dryland farms DELWP, DEDJTR Achieved and ongoing 4.8 Updating water supply-demand strategies UWCs, DELWP Achieved and completed 4.9 Review of the Victorian Uniform Drought Water Restriction Guidelines and permanent water saving rules VicWater, DELWP Achieved and completed 4.10 Facilitating integrated water planning LGs, UWCs, DELWP Achieved and ongoing 4.11 Identifying water-dependent sites of cultural importance CMAs, Parks Victoria, TOs Achieved and ongoing 4.12 Indigenous involvement in water management DELWP, CMAs, RWCs, UWCs Achieved and ongoing 4.13 Better coordination of regional Indigenous reference groups CMAs, DELWP, Parks Victoria Achieved and ongoing 4.14 Using consumptive water en route DELWP, SRW, CMAs Achieved and ongoing 4.15 Managing riparian land CMAs, DELWP Achieved and ongoing 4.16 Changing environmental management objectives CMAs, DELWP Achieved and ongoing 4.17 Develop Ministerial guidelines for groundwater dependent ecosystems DELWP, CMAs Achieved and completed Chapter 5: South Gippsland # Action Responsible organisations Status