Restoring the basin to health requires more than just more water. Coordinated local efforts to restore rivers and the surrounding land are desperately needed.
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Policy reform is urgently needed to make water use in Australia sustainable, but it won’t be effective unless it’s based on facts.
A comprehensive review of research into the economic consequences of controversial water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin reveals many studies are of poor quality. Better standards are needed.
Buying back water from irrigators across the Murray-Darling Basin will not be enough to restore river health because we have big problems getting this ‘environmental water’ to where it’s needed most.
Will the return of buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin trigger more water fights? Let’s hope not. Buybacks are the most efficient way to recover water for the environment and deliver the Basin Plan.
Federal Labor has pledged to deliver the Murray Darling Basin Plan. But a new report casts serious doubt on that promise.
The government has chosen a route not backed by evidence, and which will deliver a bad deal to taxpayers and the environment.
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Research Fellow, School of Economics and Public Policy, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Charles Sturt University, and Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Ecology, Griffith University
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Professor of Hydrology and Climate Risk, Adelaide University
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CEO One Basin CRC, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Research Fellow in Economics, Flinders University
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Research Fellow, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne