Population spread and estimate of water use per person info needed

[Claude BoweringParticipant]

My Group is doing 6.5 and our estimates of how much water storage needed for the dry season is wildy large with a really rough estimate at 8.7 million Litres, by going off water usage from other parts of Queensland, the dry season being roughly 180 days long and an estimated population of the Port Stewart settlements based off the population of Coen of around 200. We also don’t know how people are split between the Main base, Lower Camp and Upper Camp
Can we get a rough population number and spread along with an estimate of amount of water consumed per person so we can get a much more realistic amount of water needed for the wet season?
Kind Regards,
Claude Bowering

[Evelyn TodioKeymaster]

Hi Claude,

Thank you for your question. I have been in contact with Mihir, our Senior Manager of our First Nations Program at EWB. He was involved in the scoping of the Port Stewart Challenge. His response:

The population number 200 is very high. Total population at Port Stewart is around 30-40. Since the lower camp impacted by flooding no one stays at the lower camp. Entire population is staying at main base and Upper camp and other camps (Silver Plain & Running Creek).

While, I do not have exact numbers for water usage per person, it should be noted that water usage is much lower than in other areas of Northern Queensland.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Evelyn

[Yifei LiuParticipant]

Hello. Our group is participating in the EWB Challenge. We would like to ask you about the population distribution in the Lama Lama National Park area. Could you please provide the age distribution and the distribution of the resident population?

Kind Regards,
Yifei Liu

[Evelyn TodioKeymaster]

Hi Yifei,

Thank you for your question. This one is a bit challenging to answer because we don’t have specific numbers on the population distribution on the whole of Lama Lama. In Port Stewart there are around 30-40 semi-permanent community members.

This may be a question to ask during the Community Insights Event on the 11th of September where YAC will be present. Your tutor should have the details of the event. I hope that you can join!

Kind regards,
Evelyn

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