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  • Strengthening Basin Communities Program
    • Round 1 planning projects
      • Liverpool Plains project
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    • Round 2 Water Saving Initiatives—Strengthening Basin Communities

Round 1 Water Saving Initiatives—Strengthening Basin Communities

The Water Saving Initiatives component of the Strengthening Basin Communities Program supported projects that improved urban water security by reducing demand on potable supplies in the Murray-Darling Basin by reducing water loss in distribution systems, reducing potable water use and providing 'fit for purpose' water that can replace potable supplies.

This programme is closed and no future funding rounds are planned at this time.

Round 1 successful projects, announced March 2010

Local government(s)

State

Project title

Funding granted $

Wakool Shire Council

NSW

Murray Downs raw water reuse scheme

400,000

Goldenfields Water County Council

NSW

Cowangs Reservoir to Bauloora Reservoir pipeline replacement

7,500,000

Griffith City Council

NSW

Grifffith and villages water savings project

659,860

Narrandera Shire Council

NSW

Narrandera sewer reuse scheme

905,299

Coliban Region Water Corporation

VIC

Funding submission for Serpentine alternative water source

1,300,000

District Council of Loxton Waikerie

SA

Loxton water recycling scheme

1,120,000

Maranoa Regional Council

QLD

Maranoa Regional Council water saving initiatives program 2009

24,500

Lachlan Shire Council

NSW

Securing the water supply to Lake Cargelligo, Murrin Bridge, Tullibigeal and Kikiora townships

9,270,000

Central Highlands Region Water Corporation

VIC

Maryborough potable and raw water leak reduction, water main renewal and pressure reduction program

938,000

Bathurst Regional Council

NSW

Waterwise Bathurst - managing water loss through effective and efficient technology

126,524

Macedon Ranges Shire Council

VIC

Expansion of the Kyneton recycled water scheme including linking Kyneton open space

1,237,433

Young Shire Council

NSW

Young sewerage effluent reuse scheme

1,551,000

TOTAL

25,032,616

See also:

  • Round 1 planning projects
  • Round 2 planning projects
  • Round 2 water Saving Initiatives
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