12.1 Background

Infrastructure requirements include water treatment, water supply and reticulation, sewage treatment and dispersal, stormwater control, solid waste disposal, and electricity, gas and communications installations, facilities and services. The Authority is seeking to ensure that, in the provision of these basic services in the ACT, the orderly development of the National Capital is assured and the visual and physical environments are protected and in particular that the provision of infrastructure should keep pace with residential and other development. It is critical that water over which the Commonwealth has paramount rights should be allocated, as a matter of priority, to serve the needs of the National Capital.

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