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Australia now has more than enough evidence that proposals to build big dams consistently underestimate both the construction costs and the harm they do.
Policy reform is urgently needed to make water use in Australia sustainable, but it won’t be effective unless it’s based on facts.
The water levels of saline lakes depend on a delicate balance between water inputs and outputs. This means they can provide an early warning of disruptions to our water resources.
Inconsistent laws and penalties for water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin make compliance and enforcement especially challenging. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Rapid and accelerating groundwater level declines are widespread in dry climates where groundwater is used for irrigation. But some communities have found ways to turn things around.
Qanats are an ancient system which could be a useful way of getting water to farms in arid areas.
With the support of the Greens, there’s a chance the ‘Restoring Our Rivers’ Bill will pass. Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track?
Growing traditional African vegetables on building facades is feasible and can improve food supply in cities.
New research shows turning northern rivers inland to irrigate Australia’s dry interior would not increase rainfall. This is another argument against the Bradfield scheme.
Arizona is considering a multibillion-dollar desalination project to address its urgent water needs. Three water experts call for a go-slow approach and point to Israel as a role model.
Knowing the ‘next drought is just around the corner’, Australia’s Water Minister Tanya Plibersek is striking a new agreement to return water and health to the Murray-Darling Basin.
Projects have not been delivered. States are bickering. If the Albanese government is to uphold its election promise to deliver the Murray plan, hard tradeoffs are needed.
Breaching the Kakhovka Dam and reservoir had all the hallmarks of a scorched-earth strategy. Two expert observers of the Russia-Ukraine war explain this event’s destructive long-term effects.
Nigeria can produce more rice to feed its burgeoning population by harnessing its wastewater.
South Africa’s agriculture could do even better but is held back by power cuts and poor infrastructure
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Honorary Professor, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Professor of Economics and Head of School, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Professor, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
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Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
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