Australians are the world’s highest per capita users of water. Most of this water is used for irrigation (75%); urban and industrial use accounts for 20%. Between 1985 and 1997 total water use increased by 65% and it is increasingly evident from stressed and degraded rivers, floodplains and wetlands that we are using water well beyond sustainable levels.
in favour of efficiency in government/administration, for example by restructuring civil service or improving bureaucracy