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2 Outcome
The key outcome for the project (as defined in the Sustainable Development Programme of Action) is to ensure water is allocated and used in a sustainable, equitable and efficient manner. Elements to be addressed include:
- identifying better and more strategic ways of conserving and allocating freshwater from the resources available
- identifying and implementing means of addressing water shortages
- identifying and protecting instream values and needs in freshwater allocation
- maximising the sustainable, efficient and effective use of freshwater
- optimising economic, environmental, cultural and social outcomes from freshwater at a regional and national level.
