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  • What is water for the environment?
  • Managing environmental water
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    • Understanding water user behaviour in the Intersecting Streams water sources
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Water recovery programs

We are also working on water recovery programs in NSW to provide additional water for productive and environmental purposes. These include:

  • Cap and Pipe the Bores Program
  • Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism projects:
    • Menindee Lakes water saving project
    • Murrumbidgee projects
  • Basin Pipe project
  • The Nimmie Caira project
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