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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts. |
Economic issues may include: | costs and benefits of various optionspublic and private ownershipcosting modelsincreased costs of new developments. |
Social issues may include: | land resumptioncost of water supplydamage to ecosystemsequity issuespolitical exploitation. |
Water includes: | water in a watercourse, lake or springunderground wateroverland flow waterwater that has been collected in a damwastewater of domestic, commercial, industrial or agricultural origin. |
Community attitudes may include: | revulsion or fear of contaminationfear of diseasesresistance to change. |
Legislation, regulations and policies relevant to the State or Territory may include: | Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999relevant state and territory environmental protection legislation relevant water legislation and regulations Australian Drinking Water Guidelineswater recycling guidelineswater quality guidelinesNational Water Quality Management Strategy. |
Sustainability may include: | replenishment of resourcesmaintaining resourcesassault on diminishing resource. |
Water and wastewater sustainability objectives may include: | sustainable use of waterdrinking water safetywater recyclinglong-term certainty of sources. |
Sustainability issues may include: | leakageevaporationsewer mining grey water userecyclingintelligent usealternatives. |
Alternative water sources may include: | stormwaterbore waterbrackish waterprocess water. |
Range of uses may include: | irrigationaquacultureindustryfire fightingrecreationdomesticreplenishing raw surface water or groundwater resources. |
Model sustainable water systems may include examples that are: | specific to locations (e.g. Australia, Singapore, Israel and California)specific to industries (e.g. paper, cooling and food processing)existing or plannedlocal and international. |
Australian and International benchmarks may include: | data from existing systems published research. |