The 2017 evaluation of the Basin Plan is a health check on Basin Plan progress five years in. The Basin Plan’s monitoring and evaluation program requires five yearly reporting on the outcomes and effectiveness of the Basin Plan. Initially, the first five yearly evaluation was due to take place in 2017. In 2014 an independent review of the Water Act recommended shifting the five yearly evaluation cycle to start in 2020, so that it better aligned with implementation milestones and a number of other Basin Plan reviews.