Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (BURNETT BASIN) 2014 - REG 14

14 Economic outcomes

(1) Each of the following is an economic outcome for water in the plan area—

(a) provision for—

(i) the use of water entitlements and other authorisations in the plan area; and

(ii) the continued use of existing overland flow works; and

(iii) the continued use of existing groundwater works;

(b) protection of the probability of being able to take water under a water entitlement;

(c) availability of water for the following—

(i) growth in industries dependent on water resources in the plan area;

(ii) stock purposes in the plan area;

(iii) Indigenous communities dependent on water resources in the plan area to achieve their economic aspirations;

(d) support of activities stated in the Water Regulation 2016 , schedule 3;

(e) maintenance of flows that support water-related economic activities in the plan area, including, for example, tourism;

(f) support of continual improvement in the efficient use of water;

(g) maintenance, to the extent practicable, of the quality of groundwater for consumptive purposes;

(h) for groundwater in the Coastal Burnett groundwater management area—management and allocation of groundwater to prevent further seawater intrusion.

(2) In this section—

"existing groundwater works" means—

(a) works that are prescribed existing groundwater works; and

(b) works for taking groundwater, other than prescribed existing groundwater works, that were in existence immediately before the commencement.