Concern climate change could affect far west water

Margaret Paul

Posted August 02, 2012 10:36:57

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The Central Darling Shire anticipates climate change could have implications for water security in the region.

The council has been hosting a series of community workshops in White Cliffs, Ivanhoe and Wilcannia this week, as part of a Federal Government program to manage water in the Murray-Darling basin.

Utilities engineer with the council, Darren Scotty, said climate change could mean the shire has less water.

“The projections in terms of climate is that we’ll be, in this part of the world, a little bit wetter and hotter during the summer months, and a little bit hotter and drier in the winter months,” he said.

“But that can have implications for fun off and boars and that type of thing.

“So it’s really a contingency plan I guess.”

He called on residents to contact the council with water-saving ideas.

“The specifics, we don’t know,” he said.

“The stage of the process is, we’re at the evaluation stage, for community workshops will inform the consultants’ preparation for a draft stratefgy.

“It really is a bit of wait and see as to what specific measures can or may or will be implemented with the perceived threats or the projected threats of climate change.”

Topics:water-management, water-supply, water, climate-change, environment, local-government, white-cliffs-2836, wilcannia-2836, ivanhoe-2878

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