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Water Industry (Law) Reforms

of environmental water (or flows). This is aimed at complying with the AWDG, NWI
and Australian water futures program, and ensuring that West Australian’s are provided
with safe reliable and secure drinking water. Although the value of water is becoming
more prominent in the consumers’ mind, and to the population in general, the links
to the ecosystem from which it is obtained and the loss of ecoservices associated with
water abstraction are yet to be fully realised within the existing legislative frameworks
and business models.

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