Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (BURNETT BASIN) 2014 - REG 15

15 Social outcomes

(1) Each of the following is a social outcome for water in the plan area—

(a) increased security for town water supplies that rely on surface water and groundwater;

(b) availability of water for the following—

(i) population growth in towns and communities dependent on water resources in the plan area;

(ii) domestic purposes in the plan area;

(c) maintenance, to the extent practicable, of the quality of water for human use;

(d) maintenance of flows that support water-related aesthetic, cultural and recreational values in the plan area, including the cultural values of the traditional owners in the plan area;

(e) for groundwater—the support of cultural values associated with Ban Ban Springs.

(2) In this section—

"traditional owners" , in the plan area, means the Aboriginal people who identify as descendants of the original inhabitants of the area.