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Retelling Australia’s Water Story – How do we build a more sustainable water future?
Australians have been sold a myth about the successful management of Australia’s water by successive governments that isn’t borne out by the reality, which is marked by dispossession, overextraction, degradation and mismanagement of this precious resource. “It’s...
The economics of water supply
How do we put a price on the most abundate molecule on Earth? 31 July 2024 Interview with Quentin Grafton, Australian National University (ANU) Read more on The Naked Scientists: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/economics-water-supply
Water Quality – an Issue for Regional Australia
R. Quentin Grafton, FASSA, is Professor of Economics, Australian Laureate Fellow, Convenor of the Water Justice Hub, and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National...
Australians willing to pay for better drinking water
Libby Price In Australia we like to think we have a fairly high standard of living, but the reality is hundreds of thousands of Australians in small and remote communities lack access to safe, clean drinking water. A study by researchers Crawford School of...
Water Justice Hub’s new research on ABC News
Study find Australians would pay to provide clean drinking water to remote communities "Researchers say Australia can meet a United Nations goal to supply drinking water to everyone living in the country by 2030, if it rethinks how the nation should pay for it. ...
Australians say they’ll pay for everyone to have good quality drinking water (because not everyone does)
Ana Manero (ANU), Peter Coombes (ANU), Nina Lansbury (University of Queensland), Sonia Akter (ANU) and R. Quentin Grafton (ANU)(Australia) Australians’ are willing to pay more to ensure ‘good quality’ drinking water than what it would cost to provide it. This includes...
Water Justice Hub Newsletter Vol 7
Delivering a Safer and More Just Water Future
On 29th September 2023, the Water Justice Hub hosted "Drinking Water Quality in Rural and Remote Communities in Australia". The event showcased a new 5-year project entitled 'Improving Remote Indigenous Community Health through Good Quality Drinking Water' supported...
Telling a ‘Tale of Two Rivers’
Dan Schulz, Badger Bates, Anne Poelina, Sarah Martin & R. Quentin Grafton The world is at a crossroads and desperately needs pathways towards a safer and more just water future. Climate change; the need for rising food production; rapidly rising incomes that...
Towards a safer and more just water future
Quentin Grafton and Safa Fanaian, The Australian National University ‘Too much, too little, and too dirty’ sums up the problems underpinning the growing world water crisis. It’s also the title of a just published global review describing the causes and possible...