Kinglake Ranges Water Expo 13-14 March 2010
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March 15, 2010The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE.
RSVP Please
Everyone is welcome but could you either ring or email Mary, 0402 181 513 – info@murrindindiclimatenetwork.org.au
What’s On Saturday 13 March
CLOSE TO HOME
Another Sustainable Building Workshop run by the Murrindindi Climate Network and the Moreland Energy Foundation with support from Sustainability Victoria. Click here for presentations.
What’s On Sunday 13 March
THE BIG PICTURE
Groundwater Management in the Kinglake Ranges. There is a large pool of experience here and those leading the Panel Discussion are:
- Simon Cowan – Manager of Groundwater & Unregulated Systems Goulburn Murray Water
- Juliet LeFeuvre – Environment Victoria
- Jason Alexandra – Water Policy Leader, Murray Darling Basin Commission
- Richard Evans – Hydrogeologist SKM Consultants
- Bernard Eddy – Founder & Convenor of the Australian Water Network
PWF would be interested in posting some feedback on the day – good luck with it all.
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Will Polak, KANDO secretary, (email: kinglake.kando@gmail.com) says thank you to those who made the Expo ‘such an enlightening success’.
He says “each of the speakers reminded us of the challenges facing Australian river systems, irrigators and urban water supplies. Participants engaged the presenters to discuss with vigour the tensions between environmental, domestic and commercial water uses, together with the complexities of water governance at local, catchment, state and national levels.
While their views and perspectives were different, the advice of the expert panel to the Kinglake Ranges communities was shared: the Kinglake Ranges with its high rainfall and high quality surface and groundwater system (yes, it is a single interconnected water system) is a valuable water rich community.
Each panel member stressed the point that Kinglake Ranges citizens need to decide together how local water resources should be best used, and include our water aspirations in an integrated vision for Kinglake Ranges. We should also embed ground and surface water use stewardship and governance, food production, land-use and community development as central planks in the Kinglake Ranges Masterplan.
Will also advised that people wanting a copy of a (partial) amateur video of the event and the available presentations on DVD or by email, to please let him know.
Finally Will warns “As we are currently email based (and to minimise traffic for very full inboxes like mine) please try to allow our visiting panel of experts to have the most to say and watch and see what emerges.”