NSW Water Strategy 2021.

The NSW Water Strategy is the overarching state guide for 12 regional and two metropolitan water strategies to maintain the resilience of the state’s water services and resources over the coming decades. It sets high level objectives and principles to guide water service delivery and management across NSW, identifies key challenges, opportunities, strategic priorities and actions for the whole of NSW, and clearly articulates the water management and service delivery framework and policy context for NSW, including how the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and state-wide, regional, metropolitan and local strategic water policy and planning frameworks work together. The development of NSW’s regional and metropolitan water strategies is informed by the National Water Initiative, which is the national blueprint for water reform agreed by the Council of Australian Governments in 2004.
Twelve new regional water strategies are being developed by the NSW Government that will bring together the best and latest climate evidence with a wide range of tools and solutions to plan and manage the water needs in each NSW region over the coming decades. The strategies look out over the next 20 to 40 years and determine how much water a region will need to meet future demand, the challenges and choices involved in meeting those needs and the actions available to manage risks to water availability.
The Strategy is also about improvement of native fish health and populations.