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Water

Australian water entitlements

The Australian Government is acquiring and holding water entitlements with intention of achieving improved environmental outcomes. Regions in which the Government has indicated an interest in acquiring entitlements are the Murray-Darling Basin in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, the Fitzroy basin in Queensland, Tasmania, and the South-West and Carnarvon regions of Western Australia. This report provides an overview of the water entitlements in these areas and an initial (more)...

Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This LWA funded project developed a research program for the Indigenous Water Policy Group to cover identified information gaps and key issues. The themes included: identification of Indigenous water rights; interactions between water markets and the customary sector; examination of international experience, frameworks and models; Indigenous economic position in water use and markets; representation on environmental bodies; communication; and scrutiny of water services, (more)...

Governance of water: an agreement model for customary law Governance

Aboriginal Law and culture in remote Australia remains active and strong. In this project, Professor Donna Craig and the Anmatyerr Water Team demonstrate a process for local active parties to take on management of places significant to them that improves cultural and natural heritage values and indigenous futures. There exist many places of significance to Aboriginal people that are not covered by formal management processes. In the NT this includes but is not (more)...

Assessing the potential for algal blooms in clear water phase tropical rivers

Algal blooms commonly occur in rivers across southern Australia and worldwide. Blooms and their associated biota cause taste and odour problems that are a constant source of complaints to water authorities.

Assessing the Potential for Algal Blooms in Clear Water Phase Tropical Rivers

Associate Professor George Ganff, from the University of Adelaide studied the rivers of northern Australia and particularly those in the Top End of the Northern Territory which are subject to major seasonal changes in flow and inter-annual variability. During the dry season, spring water maintains flow with different water chemistry from the rainfall run-off that constitutes wet season flow.

Development and Trial of a Methodology for Total Water Resource Assessment in Tropical Australia

Assessment of water development proposals to date has been hampered by the lack of information that can be used to reasonably estimate the volume of water currently available to the environment and the proportion of that water potentially available for consumptive users.

Development and trial of a methodology for total water resource assessment in tropical Australia

This report is the outcome of a pilot study to determine whether a proposed method of total water resource assessment is viable using the limited available data in catchments of tropical northern Australia. It seeks to formulate this proposed method and then test whether it can provide an integrated assessment of the surface water and groundwater resources available in two pilot river basins in the Northern Territory.

Indigenous Interests in Tropical Rivers: Research & Management Issues

of the Scoping Study for Land & Water Australia’s Tropical Rivers Program

The report was requested by Land and Water Australia (LWA) as a scoping study to provide information for their new Tropical Rivers Program.

With the wisdom of hindsight: reconsidering institutional arrangements for water

The Rudd Government has promised to tackle Australia’s water crisis confidently, equitably and efficiently. This report proposes that this commitment be extended to put in place a suite of institutional arrangements that can be confidently explained as ones likely to fix Australia’s water allocation and investment problems.