Environmental water delivery mechanism documentation and assessment to increase transparency and trust

This report provides a summary of the following matters in relation to the delivery of Held Environmental Water (HEW):

  • all current formal and informal environmental water delivery mechanisms
  • any potential third party impacts of each mechanism and the mitigations strategies in place to address these risks
  • areas where environmental water delivery mechanisms may benefit third parties
  • the channels used to communicate environmental water delivery mechanisms
  • existing processes for the provision of environmental water delivery data.

The report also assesses the adequacy of third party risk mitigations and identifies a number of opportunities to improve the communication of environmental water delivery mechanisms and delivery data.

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Product Purpose Developed under recommendation 18 of the Australian government’s Water Market Reform: Final Roadmap Report. Recommendation reads, " The Basin Officials Committee – in consultation with the Commonwealth, Basin states and environmental water holders – should increase transparency about how held environmental water trade, transfer and delivery is managed and communicated. This should include communicating the volume of environmental and other water flows in the system at any time".