Aquifers & Underground Water Resources
Water is truly one of our most precious and fundamental resources.
Water is Life
Regional Communities rely on underground water resources and deep underground aquifers more than our urban and city dwelling cousins.
In many areas of regional and outback Australia, the wet season is a long way off, and there is no rainfall with which to depend on for regular use and consumption.
Instead we are able to utilise the often undervalued (and little understood) deep underground water table resources which supply us the life giving elixir of mineral rich, clean water.
Farmers and primary producers, industry and mining corporations, to home owners and everyday families all over Australia are able to tap into this crucially important commodity in order to function and survive in otherwise drought stricken conditions.
The preservation of these water resources and their protection from contamination, damage and depletion is an environmental and human rights essential need.
Even as we speak, precious water from aquifers and underground tables are feeding into bores, creeks, streams, rivers and the ocean all over our country.
It is our responsibility to ensure they are protected for future generations
Our Water needs protecting
Present-day policies for water bore installations in Queensland are designed to ensure sustainable management of groundwater resources while balancing the needs of landowners and the environment.
In the year 2000, Queensland implemented the Water Act
This Act governs the management of water resources in the state, including the requirements for drilling and operating water bores.
Under the Water Act, individuals and organizations must obtain a bore permit before drilling, and there are specific notification requirements for bore construction and usage.
This helps to manage groundwater resources sustainably and ensures that the impacts of bore use are monitored and regulated.
Visit the Queensland Government Website to learn more about new installations.
Older bores which were installed prior to the year 2000 have never been registered. Landowners were told they could voluntarily notify authorities about them - but this was not a priority for a majority of people and many bores remain unaccounted for in modern day Government data.
Water Bore Data
Water Bores have been a primary chosen sustainable water resource for community members in regional areas for as long as most can remember. The Whitsunday Region is estimated to have many thousands of locations, including for regional residences and farms.
Modern regulations have been created to ensure that water resources are monitored regularly. An example of such monitoring information can be found in the online interactive map can be found via the page link here.
However, many older and pre-existing water bore locations remain unreported and unknown on these newer style reference maps.
As the issue of water contamination and water ownership rights is so crucial - we would like to offer our community the opportunity to voluntarily add to our water bore location map.
We would like to proactively achieve a more accurate assessment of the true number of people who rely upon / are dependent on these underground aquifers in the relevant Dittmer and Whitsunday Regions.
We hope this will encourage regulatory bodies and responsible parties to take more interest in assessing the human rights impact of mining leases on water resources in our region.
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Our Water Resources are irreplaceable and deserve our primary focus and protection. Endangered animals and flora located in this delicate ecosystem are in dire need of our help.
