Importance of Water Protection Measures

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What is source water protection?

Long-term problems can develop that are costly or even impossible to correct. Source water protection is about protecting both the quality and the quantity of these water sources. Drinking water is best protected by taking an approach that uses multiple barriers to prevent contamination from affecting our drinking water.

What does water protection mean?

It may mean prohibiting development (entirely or within exclusion zones), limitations on activities, conditional access, and / or monitoring to identify activities or actions that are not generally suitable within source water protection areas.

Why is water protection important?

IMPROVES HUMAN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING A clean water supply is a crucial part of any healthy community, but source water protection also contributes to human well-being in other ways. Some source water protection activities can reduce the transmission of water-borne diseases.

How can we protect our drinking water supplies?

To protect our drinking water supplies, we need to keep livestock away from natural catchment areas. Landholders can take action to improve catchment water quality and protect public health. Poor-quality drinking water can affect public health.

What is a source water protection statement?

The Statement provides eleven principles for source water protection and seeks to set a future direction for preventive risk management while providing resilience to the entire water supply system. “Water suppliers should…maintain the supply of water at the highest practicable quality.

How to protect water quality?

Planning instruments, policies, strategies, standards, and guidelines to protect infrastructure and water quality. Compliance activities and a visible presence as a deterrent to illegal and unauthorised activities to protect long term water quality.

What Is Water Protection

1. https://www.safewater.org/fact-sheets-1/2017/1/23/source-water-protection
2. https://www.water.vic.gov.au/our-programs/our-framework-for-protecting-water-quality
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/water-protection
4. https://www.epa.gov/sourcewaterprotection/basic-information-about-source-water-protection
5. https://www.health.vic.gov.au/water/protecting-water-catchments
6. https://www.watercorporation.com.au/-/media/WaterCorp/Documents/About-us/Our-performance/Drinking-Water-Quality/Drinking-water-catchment-information-sheet.pdf
7. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/a-natural-solution-to-water-security/
8. https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/your-environment/water
9. https://environment.des.qld.gov.au/management/water/policy
10. https://www.awa.asn.au/resources/latest-news/business/assets-and-operations/source-water-protection-statement-water-quality

Water Protection Information

1. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/
2. https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/for-community/environmental-information/water
3. https://www.newwaterways.org.au/public-drinking-water-source-area-mapping-tool/