PHOTO: Quick access to water is vital in a bushfire, and proposed regulation changes may help.
A proposed regulatory change aims to provide more immediate access to water for landholders, improving response time in an emergency fire situation.
The NSW Government released the “What We Heard” report after receiving community feedback on a landmark proposal to improve access to water by landholders for bushfire preparedness and firefighting needs.
The state-wide review explored if changes should be made to allow individual property owners to take small volumes of water from local rivers and bores to prepare for and fight bushfires…