Western Australia's Water Minister Simone McGurk says decades-old arrangements allowing millions of litres of groundwater to be extracted free of charge for sale as bottled water should be reviewed as the state faces a drying climate.
WA Water Minister Simone McGurk says community concerns about commercial extraction of groundwater for bottled water sales are justified.The minister says decades-old arrangements allowing this to happen need to be reviewed amid drying climate conditions.
City of Armadale chief executive Joanne Abbiss said that in 1996, the minister approved the cartage of an average of 10 truckloads — each containing 28,000 litres — per week, with a maximum of 15 loads per week.'s Nadia Mitsopoulos they were concerned that no-one actually monitored how many trucks were leaving the property loaded with water.
"That's a really important point … making sure that we've got a good idea about what they're taking, and also whether it's sustainable in the current climate," Ms McGurk said. WA Greens upper house MP Brad Pettitt said a review of the legislation regulating groundwater extraction was overdue.
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