KALAMUNDA Greens candidate Janelle Sewell will host a meeting on February 18 discussing concerns about water mining in the area.

The meeting, to be held at Pickering Brook Sports Club at 6.30pm, comes as a proposal was lodged to the City of Kalamunda to extract 30,000 kilolitres of water a year which raised resident concern, as reported in Pickering Brook water extraction proposal raises resident concern.

Ms Sewell said it will be an important event for residents to attend if they wanted to be informed on the current state of water mining and how it impacts their areas.

“In attendance, we’ll have residents whose properties have been impacted,” she said.

“We’ve also got Greens water spokesperson Jess Beckerling who will talk about the need for water reform because WA is the only state that has not signed up to the national water initiative.”

At the event there will also be discussion of the current Water Act and how it has become outdated due to being written in 1914.

“The act no longer appropriately deals with our population and our issues to do with climate change,” Ms Sewell said.

“We aren’t getting the same rainfall as in 1914 and when we start drawing out of these water bores, that’s when we get the brown-off across the hills with all the trees dying.

“It is an area that needs greater regulation and monitoring, and if we don’t get these regulations in, it will continue.

“If people care about this issue it’s so important that they attend.”

* The hardcopy version of this story incorrectly said that Bibbul Ngarma Aboriginal Association is connected with this event. We apologise for our misunderstanding and have received confirmation from BNAA that they do not support or oppose any political party or their events.