Our Role
We are environmental, economic and legal analysts. We undertake research on legal and economic considerations applying to environmental decisions, in particular for water use, made by all levels of government related to mining and agriculture
Please note: although we undertake legal research, we do not provide legal advice
Why call on us?
Our service is directed to providing research of a high standard, that will identify laws governing your enterprise that are relevant for managing water resources. While an essential service, legal advice is directed to a particular problem or set of problems and often comes once a problem has materialised. Fully understanding the context within which you operate will reduce the risk that legal problems will arise.
Knowing the environmental, legal and economic context in which you are operating assists with decision making, reduces anxiety and enhances your capacity to maintain a successful enterprise.
Water – an irreplaceable resource
(World Resources Institute, (2019), Water Risk Atlas, retrieved 04 August 2023 from the World Resources Institute website: https://www.wri.org/applications/aqueduct/water-risk-atlas/#/?advanced=false&basemap=hydro&indicator=w_awr_def_qan_cat&lat=30&lng=-80&mapMode=view&month=1&opacity=0.5&ponderation=DEF&predefined=false&projection=absolute&scenario=optimistic&scope=baseline&threshold&timeScale=annual&year=baseline&zoom=3)
Water is essential for life and a necessary requirement for all forms of agricultural enterprises, mining and industry. Up to a point water is a renewable resource replenished by precipitation in its several forms (rainfall, snow, hail). Over millions of years excess rainfall has been stored in natural reservoirs as groundwater. Where precipitation is deficient these reservoirs have provided a backup source of water for both the natural and human environment.
Frequently water is not available in the right place, at the right time in the required amounts and groundwater is the primary source of water to meet excess demand. However, demand for water is outpacing the capacity of available reservoirs to meet it. Scientists estimate that about a third of the worlds aquifers are being depleted because withdrawals exceed the rate of recharge. Competing demand for and increasing scarcity of water resources means that legislation governing access to and distribution of water is becoming more and more complex.
We can give you the necessary information and tools to understand the environmental, legal and economic context in which you are operating, assist you with decision making, reducing the risk to you and the anxiety associated with that risk and enhance your capacity to maintain a successful enterprise.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands in which we work. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Environmental Equity Pty Ltd 