%T Ensuring Australia's urban water supplies under climate change: NCCARF policy guidance brief 2 %I National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility %D 2013 %K Urbanisation, %K Climate change, %K Cities and towns, %K Water %U https://apo.org.au/node/32957 %X South-west Western Australia (SWWA) is experiencing a long-term drying trend linked to climate change which is likely to persist. The water management response contains useful lessons for a nation likely to experience similar conditions in the future. The average flow rate into Perth’s dams has declined steeply: the 2006-2010 average was 57.7 GL/year compared to an average of 177 GL/year for the period 1975-2010. %9 Report