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New Water Policy and Practice
were initiated under the Water Corporation Act 1995, and the WRC Act 1995. The
WRC was responsible for the management of WA's water resources (Glindemann and
Chung 2006). In particular, the Commission's role was to balance the objective of
ensuring sustainable water use for current and future users, with the goal of protecting
water sources and their dependent ecosystems17.
These two Acts thus enabled the reforms in water management to be
implemented as part of COAG agreements in 1994 with water reforms continuing
at a pace over the next decade. This included the development of the Water Source
Protection Plans for WA,