There’s broad support from communities and farmers for proper water audits. John/Flickr, CC BY-SA In the wake of a damning royal commission and an ABC Four Corners investigation, the federal government has created an Inspector General for the […]
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Brett Shearwood doesn’t like to tell people what he does for a living. He worries about the response he will get because, he says, his industry is ‘on the nose’. Mr Shearwood, an irrigation farmer from the New […]
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In the lead up to the NSW state election, UNSW’s Professor Richard Kingsford outlines what needs to be done to protect the Murray-Darling rivers and the communities that rely on them. Rivers running dry, algal blooms, more fish […]
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The widespread deaths of fish in the Darling River – with more predicted to come – has raised serious questions about the allocation of water between agriculture and the environment. Water-hungry crops like cotton and rice are also […]
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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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It’s not about more money for farmers. It’s about long-term settings for a changing climate – and taking the politics out of it Central to the Australian meaning of drought is the idea of a rainfall deficiency, a […]
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Water management and agricultural planning in New South Wales is set to receive a significant boost with 33 new seasonal streamflow forecasting sites coming online. Monitoring these sites allows the Bureau of Meteorology to forecast likely streamflow volumes […]
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Vivid scenes of worried Cape Town residents clutching empty water vessels in long snaking queues are ricocheting around the globe. Everyone is asking, “How did this happen?” Or, more precisely, “Can it happen in my city?” The importance of […]
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Land plants are absorbing 17% more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere now than 30 years ago, our research published today shows. Equally extraordinarily, our study also shows that the vegetation is hardly using any extra water to do […]
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The discussion about which scale is the most relevant for water resources management is an increasingly important debate of hydrological modelling principles over the last decade. The session “(Ir‑)relevant scales in hydrology: Which scales matter for water resources […]
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