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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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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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Wall Street Journal: US should learn from Australia’s water market failings

September 23, 2019 Rachel Pannett (The Wall Street Journal)

In Australia, dead kangaroos and a scandal called Watergate are results of flawed plan for water market Australia’s Darling River was once filled with fleets of paddle steamers carrying wool to ships bound for England. For nearly two […]

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