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Earlier work by CEDA on water and related issues
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Harvard Professor John Briscoe contends Australia is a world leader in water management. He describes how Australia’s expertise allowed it to content with dramatically altered environmental conditions.
Professor John Langford of Uniwater describes the history of water management reform and how it equipped Australia to cope with the recent drought.
Australian Water Project Management Committee member, Professor John Briscoe, was invited by the Standing Committee on Legal Constitutional Affairs of the Senate to comment on the Water Act of 2007. His submission is damning.
The Australian Water project is a two-year research project exploring water management policy and frameworks. It is a world-leading collaboration between CEDA, Harvard University and Uniwater (a Monash-Melbourne joint venture).
The work of the 2030 Water Resources Group will form an important reference for the work of the Australian Water Project.
Water is everybody's business. No society has ever prospered without infrastructure and institutions for managing water – for protection against floods and droughts, for growing food, for people in cities, for generating electricity, for navigation.
It may be a surprise for many people, but Australia's challenges with water are more an opportunity than a crisis. Unlike most of our food exporting competitors, our major population centres are largely coastal and have water insurance in terms of desalination plants. So our food bowls need not be drained by the cities and can implement a wide range of productivity enhancements. Hence, water is not a rigid constraint on either our population or our production
Harvard Professor John Briscoe was interviewed by ABC Radio National on Australia's experience with water management. His response may surprise you.
Professor Gary Jones and Peter Cottingham discuss, from an ecological perspective, the complexities surrounding 'environmental flows'.
John Blackwell and his associates highlight a different approach to managing urban and rural waste streams while maintaining and enhancing the productive capacity of our limited water resources.