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with Salinity in Wheatbelt Valleys Conference Dealing Prospects and Practical Options Processes, Start to develop criteria between drainers, community, shires, agencies. Build some shared and agreed targets that can indicate if drain, planting, is doing the job. It’s not possible to save all the remnant vegetation patches and $’s are limiting. Therefore, as a first step we need an audit of what is left and pick out the “Jewels in the Crown” of remnant woodlands that requires urgent action. (ie pumping etc) and act on it. “Lets get strategic, and act”. All stakeholders need to accept that a shared vision belongs to the entire community and is therefore much greater than any single issue – eg: • drainage • biodiversity • production • etc It is all of these together. It encompasses all opinions. • Mass leaflet drop to landholders informing them of the shared vision and how it was developed. • Appoint a “drafting group” to refine the rough vision developed at workshop into one that can be circulated generally. • Please don’t form another committee or Government Department to tackle this issue. Use existing ones. • Collect all existing information and research on drainage, saltland revegetation and extend it to stakeholders – (farmers and LCDC’s). Extension of existing research is very poorly done. Research is being duplicated. Pass on all the statements arrived at, to the State Salinity Council and other bodies that can project themselves to the top bucks (Premier, PM etc) on an official level. Communicate outcomes of valley floors to committees particularly conceptual changes. Determine how manage on a committee from this floor. Elect committee of say three farmers and 2 professional onto committee to liaise with Government to determine how best to meet the vision. • Publish the shared vision in press. • State Salinity Council to take shared vision to State Government. • Action to be taken on new industries. 1. We need public knowledge of what is biologically valuable to do that: Coordination between agencies, community groups (eg catchment groups) and “environmental” groups working together to: • identify ecosystems in area, • promote findings, • prioritise highest need to protect, • plan for protection. 2. To help farmers make decisions about what to do on their land: • Provide information (in nice neat package) about what options are available to manage water resources. • Get scientists to simplify current findings – what works, where does it work, why does it work there. • Agencies to provide role in supporting farmers “try out” different scenarios to determine what works for them. 1. Convenors publicise outcomes of this conference ie – Shared Vision. Clearly address the questions posed on the poster of key conference questions.
with Salinity in Wheatbelt Valleys Conference Dealing Prospects and Practical Options Processes, 2. Convenors brief Drainage Committee. Task Force, Avon WG and agency CEO’s (ie use existing structures, committees to achieve actions that contribute to the vision on the outcomes of the conference. • Political Bipartisanship. This process is much bigger than any government bipartisanship will help convince most that it is worthwhile let Judy talk to Hendy. • “One-Stop Shop” Let’s have a “Salinity Action Commission” – A’ la Murray-Darling Basin Commission. Perhaps state Salinity Council. Perhaps “Salinity Taskforce”. But someone has to take responsibility for coordination and commitment of funds. The “One-Stop-Shop” could call for or coopt members from workshop. • Legislative/Statute to implement a Salinity Cap/Biodiversity Cap/Water Table Cap. Be prepared to get the “City” to fund the innovations. In the business to kick-start alternatives. To request the Drainage Committee and Salinity Task Force to: • Consider the vision statement developed by the Valley Floors Workshop. • Develop and operational plan (objectives, strategies, responsibilities, monitoring of performance criteria) for – biodiversity, management of Valley Floors, hydrology. State Salinity Council, in partnership with relevant agencies, sponsor and fund a programme of research and extension activities to provide landholders and other stakeholders with technical and financial information and options to high water use options and alternative land use systems. Fix the drainage problem and set an appropriate regulatory environment for engineering solutions. • Make landholders responsible for their actions. • Prohibit further land clearing and adverse off-site effects of land management. • Ban cats. A practical step to achieve the shared vision is to ensure that existing NRM State committees eg State Salinity Council progress the options expressed at the Merredin conference. The membership of the committee needs to be expanded to cover all state level groups involved in NRM. Present to the Government with the vision. Pressure Government to work on a bipartisan approach for super long-term commitment to implementing the vision. It is obvious that everyone is concerned about drainage. I feel if a “standard protocol” for our deep drains/groundwater pumping etc was decided upon and that all government agencies agreed and accepted these, all people in the community could get along with more forward thinking. Once these issues of excess water are decided upon, new and profitable industries will (or can) be created, biodiversity can be controlled and looked after, and farmers and the wider communities will be sustainable, and maybe we “might” even bring back more people to our regional centres. We must promote new industries in our “Wheatbelt” and look after the ones we already have. Take it back to small groups in our communities and interpret it from what it means to them. Use the process we used in our own communities to develop our own visions from our own groups – this is the level where a shared vision is most important.
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Foreword Dealing with Salinity in W
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REFERENCES Dawes, W.R., Stauffacher
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