Pilbara Water Opportunities Forum

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• Pilbara Water Opportunities Forum
• Friday 18 September
• Presentation by
• Paul Rosair
• A/Director General Department of Regional
  Development and Lands

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Revitalisation Plan Two Phases

• Phase One
• four key delivery initiatives of health, energy,
  community development and water initiatives.
• Phase Two
• new initiatives across the Pilbara
• future regional studies and regional planning.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Revitalisation Plan Phase One
Initiatives

• Phase One initiatives have commenced and include
   
• Health Initiatives
• 2.5 million to immediately improving clinical
  and medical imaging equipment across all Pilbara
  Hospitals
• 32.964 million provided to the Pilbara Health
  Partnership.
•  Energy Initiatives
• The Pilbara Underground Power Project - to the
  coastal towns ofSouth Hedland, Roebourne,
  Karratha and Onslow.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Revitalisation Plan Phase One
Initiatives

• Community Development Initiatives
• 77.5 million allocated across the four Pilbara
  Local Government Authorities for various
  community infrastructure projects to revitalise
  each town.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Water Initiatives

• Pilbara water resources will play an important
  role in the regions economic diversification.
  The Western Australian Government has developed
• a draft Pilbara Regional Water Plan (PRWP) in
  2008, followed by
• an independent prefeasibility study to identify
  water source options and opportunities in the
  Pilbara released in May 2009.
• Water source options identified in the Study
• mine dewater for various uses
• coastal surface/alluvial water
• supplementary bore field development
• pipeline construction to integrate source with
  demand
• desalination.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Water Initiatives

• The next stage is to test some of these options.
• 2.5 million under the Royalties for Regions
  Pilbara Revitalisation Plan Phase One has been
  allocated for this process.
• Funding will be allocated towards undertaking
  trial pilot projects and/or associated works to
  test the feasibility of an option.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Water Initiatives

• The Department of Regional Development and Lands
  is keen to receive proposals for funding that
• create secondary economies, agricultural
  development and indigenous capacity building
  within the Pilbara hinterland
• leverage opportunities to partner with
  Commonwealth Government, Industry and Indigenous
  Communities.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Water Initiatives

• Government will formally call for EOIs from
  private and public sector to submit proposals for
  funding from the allocated 2.5 million in late
  October 2009 early November 2009.

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara
Pilbara Water Initiatives

• If you would like to find out further information
  and details of the EOI when released or to
  receive an invite to the second of these Forums
  to be held in Perth in mid October 2009 please
  contact
• Andrew Mann
• Manager
• Project Coordination Delivery
  Infrastructure
• Department of Regional Development and Lands
• ? [phone]
• ? andrew.mann_at_rdl.wa.gov.au

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Water Opportunities in the Pilbara

• Thank you