PHOTO: The state’s first Aboriginal Water Strategy is expected to finalise in 2025. PHOTO: Wikimedia
Government officials will hold a series of workshops across the Western Plains to engage and provide opportunity for feedback on NSW’s first Aboriginal Water Strategy and Action Plan.
The draft plan, expected to be finalised in 2024-early 2025, aims to strengthen involvement from Aboriginal people in water planning and management, work more closely with them in sharing knowledge and protecting water-related sites, and provide ownership and access to water for cultural and economic purposes.
The draft plan is on public exhibition from 15 July to 25 August.
Staff from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water (DCCEEW) have been visiting towns including Narromine, Walgett, Bourke and Brewarrina to encourage input from local Indigenous community members…