Drinking Water Catchments Regional Environmental Plan No 1. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision New South Wales Document type Legislation Date 2006 (2011) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition, Water Keyword Potable water Basin/catchment/watershed Water quality standards Inland waters Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract The Drinking Water Catchments Regional Environmental Plan No 1 (made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979) consisting of 31 sections divided into six Parts and completed by one Schedule, aims to create healthy water catchments that will deliver high quality water while sustaining diverse and prosperous communities, to provide the statutory components in Sustaining the Catchments that, together with the non-statutory components in Sustaining the Catchments, will achieve the previous aim, and to achieve the water quality management goals of: i) improving water quality in degraded areas and critical locations where water quality is not suitable for the relevant environmental values, and ii) maintaining or improving water quality where it is currently suitable for the relevant environmental values. Full text English Website www.austlii.edu.au References - Legislation Implements Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. Legislation | Australia | 1979 (2020) Keyword: Cultural heritage, Indigenous peoples, Basic legislation, EIA, Environmental planning, Dispute settlement, Offences/penalties, Policy/planning, Aquaculture, Freshwater resources management, Sustainable development, Water conservation zone Source: FAO, FAOLEX