Scarcity drives water prices, not government water recovery: new research

November 28, 2019 Sarah Ann Wheeler (University of Adelaide)

Australia has one of the most sophisticated water markets in the world, particularly notable for the ways in which government can return water to the environment. Water markets allow the return of this water through two main mechanisms. […]

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Murray-Darling Basin could be missing billions of litres of water, study claims

March 18, 2019 Rachel Carbonell, Tom Igguiden and Jessie Davies (ABC)

Hundreds of billions of litres of water is missing from the Murray-Darling Basin, according to a new report. An Australian National University (ANU) study claimed the Federal Government had grossly exaggerated the amount of water being returned to […]

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