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Water (In)Sovereignty: USA, China and United Kingdom Are The Largest Foreign Owners of Australian Water
September 14th, 2023
Via ABC.au, a report that Canada, USA, UK and China top the list of foreign owners in Australia’s water market: Key points: Foreign ownership of water in Australia grew from 4,389 GL in June 2021, to 4,503 GL in June 2022 About 11 per cent of water entitlements in Australia are owned by foreign companies A […]
Read more »Five Steps Needed To Fix the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
August 3rd, 2023
Via Phys.org, a look at the Murray-Darling Basin plan: The Murray Darling Basin Plan is an historic deal between state and federal governments to save Australia’s most important river system. The A$13 billion plan, inked over a decade ago, was supposed to rein in the water extracted by farmers and communities, and make sure the […]
Read more »The Murray-Darling Basin Shows Why The ‘Social Cost of Water’ Concept Won’t Work
July 3rd, 2023
Via The Conversation, commentary on the ‘social cost’ of water: Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Fights over water can be expected to intensify as the world warms, evaporation increases and rainfall becomes less predictable. So we’ll need […]
Read more »Death On The Darling
April 7th, 2023
Via The Economist, a look at how climate change and poor management are imperilling Australia’s biggest river system: Yabbies, freshwater lobsters native to Australia, thrive in the outback for a reason. They can tolerate high temperatures and drought, and need hardly any oxygen in their water. Yet even for them the Darling river, which snakes […]
Read more »Australia: Must Embrace Water As A National Security Priority
February 26th, 2021
Courtesy of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, commentary on Australia’s need to embrace water as a national security priority: Hangovers result from a classic human failing: we stop and think only when a problem arises, not when it’s caused. When times are good, we’ve always got room for one more, but come the morning and […]
Read more »Bone-Dry Australia Faces Backlash Against Dam Projects
July 19th, 2020
Via The Wall Street Journal, at look at how – as Australian authorities seek to maximize water use – they are clashing with indigenous communities and environmentalists over dams: To indigenous Australians Isabel and George Coe, the hills near a 280-foot-tall dam here are part of a sacred landscape that is dotted with burials and […]
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