Project overview

The Truwana / Cape Barren Island water resilience project will address water security issues on Cape Barren Island, Tasmania. This is Tasmania’s only discrete Aboriginal community.

Limited existing water infrastructure has caused severe water security issues in recent years. The community has experienced total water loss during dry periods.

Previous critically low water levels on the Island have required emergency water imports. At times, the community has also had to resort to pumping water from a freshwater beach seep.

Project overview

The water security project will improve water availability and resilience for the community.

The community faces many challenges that impact their water security. These include high salts, low groundwater availability and increasing housing demand.

The project will supplement and expand the existing water supply by:

Project overview

The Gerard Water Security project will restore safe and reliable water access for the community.

It will restore and upgrade the local water treatment plant. The project includes:

• installing an ultrafiltration membrane treatment unit
• repairing degraded treatment systems
• installing water demand and quality monitoring systems.

This will bring the community’s water supply in line with the national water guidelines and remove the need for water carting.

Project overview

The Better Bores for Communities – Phase 1 package will provide better access to safe and reliable water in 10 NT First Nations communities. This will support the health of these remote communities and improve liveability. Ultimately the projects will support First Nations people to remain living on Country.

This package includes bore drilling or equipping projects in the following Northern Territory communities:

Project overview

The Lightning Ridge project will improve water access and reliability. The community’s water challenges include old infrastructure, degraded pipelines and climate risks.

The project involves:

• upgrading more than 5 km of pipeline
• repairing the main bore to full functionality
• upgrading both bores to meet industry standards.

Benefits of the project will include:

Project overview

This project will construct a new water treatment plant to address water quality issues.

Wujal Wujal, in Far North Queensland, has many issues with water quality. Its water infrastructure is old and in poor condition. The water treatment plant is not operating as it should. The community experiences frequent and long-lasting boil water alerts and water restrictions.  

The project will design and construct a new water treatment plant to replace the existing plant. The new plant will:

Project overview

This project will provide a safe, secure and reliable drinking water source for the Indigenous communities of:

• Bamaga
• Seisia
• New Mapoon
• Umagico and Injinoo.

Each of these communities receive water from the Bamaga water treatment plant (WTP).

The project will:

Project overview

This project will improve Dajarra’s long term water security. It will also ease water restrictions across the community.

Dajarra has a poor quality and unreliable bore water supply, and its distribution network has reached its end-of-life. It is estimated to leak 7.2 ML of water per year. These issues have resulted in water restrictions, including no outdoor or overnight use, to reduce water loss.

The project has two parts:

Project overview

This project will deliver long term water security for Cherbourg. The project will address:

• ongoing water quality and reliability issues, like regular boil water alerts
• water leaks and contamination that are caused by a failing water treatment plant and aged distribution network.

The project will upgrade the:

• water treatment plant
• distribution network
• Bert Button treated water reservoirs.

The project includes:

Project overview

The Mornington Island Water Supply project will support the Kunhanaamendaa, or people of Kunhanhaa. 

The quality of the island’s water supply can worsen during extreme weather and lead to boil water alerts. The water treatment plant upgrades will deliver better drinking water and health outcomes. The plant will treat water turbidity and contamination from bacteria and metals. 

The plant will include: