Water
Food & Environment / Water
Perceptions about the declining health of our major catchment areas and the severity of drought in Australia often inspire poorly informed public policy. Furthermore, the economic considerations about Australian water supply is often misunderstood. The Institute of Public Affairs applies an evidence-based framework and rigorous economic analysis to examining issues concerning water policy.
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Logic evaporates in water solution
Water Minister Tim Holding recently leaked part of a report that his department had commissioned to update the cost of building new dams. For a dam...
Acid Sulfate Blame Floating Upstream
South Australians seem to really know how to whinge - now they're blaming an acid sulphate soil problem on NSW irrigators. The latest moaning...
Rewriting Murray History for a Fish
With the many problems besetting the Murray Darling Basin, the last thing a group of scientists was expecting to find was a new species of fish in...
No Balance in Water Negotiations
Some years ago an irrigator in the Macquarie Valley explained to me that they had been giving back water for years as part of negotiated and then...
Government actions cloud water debate
The AFR has started an overdue debate with Terry Dwyer's article ('Conspiracy of silence over water charges'). Like many natural products with a...
