Federal Labor has pledged to deliver the Murray Darling Basin Plan. But a new report casts serious doubt on that promise.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Water policy
Displaying 1 - 20 of 26 articles
Can one department adequately tackle climate change, energy, the environment and water? It’s unlikely.
A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.
A new book says Australia’s 20-year water trading experiment is sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin and directing water away from productive land.
Pipelines, dams, gadgets: does water management really need to be all about control and power? Adopting less masculine ideas and working with nature may be more prudent.
First Nations people have almost no say in how water is used in Australia. The Productivity Commission’s latest report does little to address that.
A major new report from the Productivity Commission calls for an overhaul of Australia’s 17-year-old policy on water.
India’s civil society, which for the past 30 years has been critical of India’s water policies, now has the opportunity to drive the policy recommendations for water management.
Across the NSW portion of the Murray-Darling Basin, Aboriginal people make up almost 10% of the population. Yet they hold a mere 0.2% of all available surface water.
Thirty years since Australia’s water reform project began, it’s clear our efforts have largely failed. We must find another way.
It’s more freshwater than what the population of the Greater Sydney region uses, but finding this out wasn’t easy.
Our study predicts a further 0.5℃ increase in temperature by 2041 will halve the current number of farmers in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
Cities relied entirely on conserving and recycling water to get through the last big drought. We now have desalination plants, but getting the most out of our water reserves still makes sense.
The Murray-Darling is not just a food bowl, yet the South Australian Royal Commission has found the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is failing its mission to protect the environment as well as irrigators.
Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
Groundwater is out of sight, but it shouldn’t be out of mind. As cities struggle to cope with drought, we should remember that our largest stocks of water are hidden deep underground.
South Africa has good water laws. So why does the minister want to change them?
Mass hysteria and lawlessness during disasters are remarkably rare, contrary to Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s prediction of anarchy when Cape Town’s taps run day.
A dozen leading researchers have issued an urgent call to action for the Murray-Darling Basin, arguing that the billions spent on water-efficient irrigation have done little for the rivers’ health.
Australian cities have turned to some very costly solutions when water is scarce. But as the world’s second-highest users of water per person, more efficient use and recycling are key.
Top contributors
-
Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
-
Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
-
Honorary Fellow, Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide
-
Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
-
Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
Research fellow, Australian National University
-
Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong
-
Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
-
Adjunct Professor Environment and Natural Resources, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
