COAG Reform Council

Water Management Partnerships

Water Management Partnerships: Performance report for 2010

The Water Management Partnerships: Performance report for 2010 is our second report on the progress of the Commonwealth and the Basin States against the Water Management Partnerships for the reporting period of 2010. The report provides an assessment of governments' performance against 2010 reform obligations, an assessment of risks to meeting reform obligations in future years, and an overview of governments' progress in developing and delivering priority projects.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 September 2011, and publicly released on 3 November 2011.

Executive summary – DOC 149KB | PDF 284KB

Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 1.2MB | PDF 1.2MB

Volume 2 – National Water Commission: Water Management Partnership Agreement reform actions – PDF 1.4MB

Report by section:

Preliminaries – PDF 218KB

Chapter 1: Introduction – PDF 338KB

Chapter 2: Water planning and management – PDF 403KB

Chapter 3: Water Markets and Trading – PDF 423KB

Chapter 4: Basin State priority projects – PDF 660KB

Chapter 5: Commonwealth-led priority projects – PDF 212KB

Chapter 6: Performance reporting framework – PDF 295KB

Appendix A: Reform milestones – PDF 203KB

Appendix B: Acronyms – PDF 44KB

Appendix C: References – PDF 161KB

Water Management Partnerships: Report on Performance 2009

This is the council's first report on the progress of the Commonwealth and the Basin States against the Water Management Partnerships for the reporting period of 2009.

The report provides an assessment of governments' performance against 2009 reform obligations, an assessment of risks to meeting reform obligations in future years, and an overview of governments' progress in developing and delivering priority projects.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 September 2010, and publicly released on 22 October 2010.

On 13 February 2012, COAG provided a response to the council on this report:

COAG Response to the CRC Water Management Partnerships: Report on Performance – DOC 40KB | PDF 370KB

Executive summary – DOC 356KB | PDF 251KB

Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 1.4MB | PDF 1.23MB

Volume 2 – National Water Commission: Water Management Partnership Agreement reform actions – PDF 1.89MB

Report by section:

Preliminaries – PDF 186KB

Chapter 1: Introduction – PDF 271KB

Chapter 2: Context for water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin – PDF 319KB

Chapter 3: Water planning and management – PDF 356KB

Chapter 4: Water markets and trading – PDF 337KB

Chapter 5: Priority projects in Basin States – PDF 281KB

Chapter 6: Performance reporting framework – PDF 213KB

Appendix A and Bibliography – PDF 264KB

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