CDA head coach Ann Widdup said there were no pools in the ACT that could cater all-year-round for all water sports including spring-board diving, water polo, underwater rugby and triathlon.

She is calling for an indoor centre similar to many across the country which have a 50-metre leisure pool, a learn-to-swim pool, a deeper dive-pool, and split pool for water sports.

"The pool at the AIS is pretty good but it isn't owned by the ACT," Ms Widdup said.

"I don't want to see another swimming pool like in Gungahlin that is just a 50-metre pool. We need indoor pools available all year so we don't have to travel interstate for all competitions."

She said the best the government could offer was the $33 million "pool in a shed" beginning construction in the Stromlo Forest Park next year.

The pool, which had long been lobbied for by the Weston Creek and Molonglo communities, is expected to be completed in 2019 and is one of a suite of additions outlined for the park in its master plan announced in May.

ACT Sport and Recreation Minister Yvette Berry said it was unlikely that a dive pool would be built at Stromlo, but there would have room for expansion and the government would consult with water sports groups throughout the design process.

She said aquatic facilities were a priority of the ACT government and that all Canberra suburbs were located within 10 kilometres of the city's larger pools.

But Ms Widdup believes the government has ignored the aquatic community, by not building diving boards at the Gungahlin Leisure centre in 2014, announcing the Olympic Pool will be replaced with a new sports stadium within a decade, and backflipping on plans to build a diving pool as part of the City to the Lake project.

She was initially pleased about a proposed 50-metre lap and diving pool at West Basin as part of the City to the Lake, but was disappointed it would not be built for years and crushed to learn it would likely be downgraded to a smaller leisure pool.

The Land Development Agency said it was rethinking plans for the West Basin pools given the space that a 50-metre pool would take and the deep excavation that a diving pool would need.

"It's just one thing after another," Ms Widdup said.

"We were particularly upset about the Civic Pool, as everyone was asking why the football community have rights to build yet another stadium but the pool can't even stay as a pool."

But Ms Berry said the government allocated $400,000 to investigate other cites to replace the pool in the city.

"That work will be undertaken this year and will inform the scope and size of a facility in West Basin (as under the City to the Lake masterplan), and also investigate other possible locations," she said.

Last year, The Canberra Times reported that about 19 million litres a year had been leaking from the Canberra Olympic Pool since 2013, including from an outdoor diving pool and a children's swimming pool, equivalent to the loss of the entire volume of an Olympic size pool every two weeks.