Treating water markets like stock markets: Key water market reform lessons in the Murray-Darling Basin

January 30, 2020 Constantin Seidl (University of Adelaide)

With large parts of south-eastern Australia in the grips of the worst drought in 120 years, irrigation communities in the Murray-Darling Basin are suffering under low water availability and high water prices. Alongside severe cuts in commodity prices, […]

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Drought and climate change are driving high water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin

July 23, 2019 Neal Hughes (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences)

Water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin have reached their highest levels since the worst of the Millennium drought more than a decade ago. These high water prices are causing much anxiety in the region, and have led […]

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