Archive: Water stories hosted by the Water Justice Hub
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)...
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...
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...
The Price and Value of Water
Quentin Grafton, Ana Manero, Long Chu & Paul Wyrwoll (The Australian National University) What’s the value of water? Is that value reflected in...
How long does it take to fix a world water crisis (46 years and counting…)?
R. Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Asit K. Biswas (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom), Hilmer Bosch (University of...
Does irrigation ‘efficiency’ help with water scarcity? Without a systems perspective it can make it worse
Chris Perry (former Editor in Chief, Agricultural Water Management) & Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia) According to...
Reimagining river futures by reshaping water infrastructure
Paul Wyrwoll and Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University, Australia Catastrophic floods and...
The water-climate change emergency
An Australian story QUENTIN GRAFTON As world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the Australian...
Voices of the Barka River – World Rivers Day 2021
The Water Justice Hub, Australian National University, ANU One of Australia’s most significant rivers, the Barka (Lower Darling), is in crisis....
Learning from Indigenous knowledge
Achieving water justice KATHERINE TAYLOR, ANNE POELINA Australia’s current water framework needs to pay more attention to Indigenous First Law,...
Bending Towards Water Justice – ‘valuing’ water and World Water Day 2021
Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Safa Fanaian (University of Oxford, UK), Gabriela Sacco (Institute for Global Dialogue...
‘Water security’: four myths and why we need a fit-for-purpose definition
By Kat Taylor, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University Australians say we want water security. But what is it? This simple term hides...
Democratic water governance to achieve a human right to water
By Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University, USA. Ten years ago, the global community formally recognized a universal human right to water in a...
A Coalition of Hope! A Regional Governance Approach to Indigenous Australian Cultural Wellbeing
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame The Rainbow Snake is a universal Indigenous Australian living creature...
The impacts of a changing climate on public health
By Dr Aparna Lal, the Australian National University Growing up in India in the 1980s, Dr Aparna Lal had access to running water for only two hours...
Bookarrarra Liyan Mardoowarra Booroo
A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower...
Everyday Australians protecting the places we Love
A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy...
MARDOOWARRA – FITZROY RIVER
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame Everyone who has an association with the river, whether Indigenous or not,...