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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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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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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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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