Future water security lay outside the usual water delivery infrastructure. In The Sustainable Hour on 11 July 2018, our guest is the Victorian Minister for Water and Police, the Hon Lisa Neville MP, who expands our vision on water in a talk about water efficiency and behaviour change, storm water, wetlands and tanks, fracking, climate change and other risks to our water security, and what the the next state election has to do with that.

Audio clips: Dr Jeremy Leggett about fossil fuel companies being taken to court, and The Juice Media about fracking for gas in the Northern Territory.

Music: ‘If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous’ by Sarah McQuaid and ‘Limits’ by the Formidable Vegetable Sound System.

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Lisa Neville: Guarding our water

As a minister for Police, the Hon Lisa Neville MP guards our waterways and fresh water resources with an extra level of authority. She is Minister for Water and Police for the Government in Victoria, serving as the member for Bellarine, representing the Labor Party.

Following the Victorian state election in 2014, Neville was made Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water. In May 2016, she then changed to be Victoria’s Minister for Water and Police. In The Sustainable Hour, she explains how this has worked out well for her.

» Lisa Neville’s home page:

www.lisanevillemp.com.au

» Find contact details on www.parliament.vic.gov.au

Sustainable water strategy review

Communities in Victoria’s central regions are encouraged to contribute to the Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy review.

Media release from www.delwp.vic.gov.au on 28 June 2018:

“REVIEWING WATER STRATEGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Sustainable Water Strategies are long-term plans for water resources across Victoria’s Gippsland, Northern, Western and Central regions.