A draft Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy was on public exhibition from Wednesday 22 May until Sunday 14 July 2024 and has now closed.
Consultation paper
The draft Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy is a set of two documents:
Supporting documents
There are 4 reports that detail the climate and hydrological modelling as well as the economic assessments for the draft Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy. These results intend to inform public understanding and discussion about the shortlisting of options that are presented in the draft Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy:
Further information on the methods of developing and implementing the department’s paleo-stochastic climate data can be found by visiting: Climate risk data and water modelling
Background information
Previous versions of the draft Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy as well as information about past engagement can be found by visiting the what we heard page.
Public information sessions
Given the inter-connectedness of the NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee regions, and the significant overlap in communities and stakeholder groups, engagement for the strategies is occurring in parallel. Both strategies are on public exhibition from 22 May until 14 July 2024.
Webinars
Watch the recorded webinar
Wednesday 12 June 2024 – An overview of the regional water strategies program, specific challenges and shortlisted actions for both the draft NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategies.
Watch the recorded webinar
Friday 14 June 2024 – An overview of the regional water strategies program, specific challenges and shortlisted actions for both the draft NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategies..
Face-to-face information sessions
Sessions were held in the following towns:
- Wagga Wagga, Tuesday 4 June
- Griffith, Wednesday 5 June
- Deniliquin, Thursday 6 June
- Albury, Friday 7 June
- Queanbeyan, Monday 17 June
- Wentworth, Tuesday 18 June
Contact us
Please email the department at regionalwater.strategies@dpie.nsw.gov.au if you have any questions or would like further information about our information sessions.
The department is consulting on several programs across the Murrumbidgee region, including the Reconnecting River Country Program. These consultation activities do not directly form part of our work to develop the Murrumbidgee Regional Water Strategy. If you have an interest in all active consultations in the Murrumbidgee region, please see the Have Your Say page.
Next steps
Following public consultation, we will consider the feedback received during community consultation and finalise the strategy by late 2024. We will also develop an implementation plan that will set out when we plan to commence each action and what we plan to achieve by when.
