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Climate change and urbanisation threaten groundwater quality

May 27, 2020 Elle Hardy (Water Source)

The world’s drinking water faces a new threat, with the largest study of its kind finding that climate change and increasing urbanisation are contaminating the aquifers that sustain more than half of the world’s population. A study led […]

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ARC Laureate Professor Grafton to investigate Indigenous perspectives on sustainable water management

September 24, 2019 WaterSource

A lack of understanding about how Indigenous Australians value water has led to a lack of justice in decision-making. This is an issue Professor Quentin Grafton, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy at the […]

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New guidelines needed for more accurate groundwater modelling

March 26, 2019 WaterSource (Australian Water Association)

A lack of guidelines around groundwater modelling has led to inaccurate and unreliable results, a new paper has found. In Australia, groundwater makes up about 17% of accessible water and accounts for more than 30% of the country’s […]

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Why Australia needs a new water reform agenda

January 19, 2019 Ruth Cooper (Australian Water Association)

There have been positive changes to Australian water management in past decades, but new challenges have emerged that require a refreshed national water reform agenda. This was one of the main themes of the 2018 Peter Cullen Lecture, […]

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