New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2015 | Page 77

New Water Policy and Practice were initiated under the Water Corporation Act 1995, and the WRC Act 1995. The WRC was responsible for the management of WA's water resources (Glindemann and Chung 2006). In particular, the Commission's role was to balance the objective of ensuring sustainable water use for current and future users, with the goal of protecting water sources and their dependent ecosystems17. These two Acts thus enabled the reforms in water management to be implemented as part of COAG agreements in 1994 with water reforms continuing at a pace over the next decade. This included the development of the Water Source Protection Plans for WA,