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...
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 the World Meteorological Organization’s just released State of Global Water Resources report, five billion...
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 Government must take meaningful action to address the climate change-induced water crisis that’s already unfolding, Quentin...
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. People and ecosystems are suffering, and the situation seems only to deteriorate further with every passing season. The...
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 and Culture of Encounter, Argentina) and Luis Liberman (Instituto Universitario del Agua y el Saneamiento, Argentina)...
‘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 different meanings. Beneath the ‘water security’ rhetoric are water winners and water losers. As the climate dries,...
Guardians of the River
In this film by American Rivers and Swiftwater Films, Indigenous leaders share why removing four dams to restore a healthy Klamath River is critical for clean water, food sovereignty and justice. “This river is our umbilical cord. What feeds us, what nurtures us. This...
Dreams come true
A story 65,000-plus years in the making — the Nyikina Dreaming of Woonyoomboo — has been created in an interactive multimedia e-book for Nyikina young people before some locations are potentially damaged by development.Gooniyandi woman Helen Malo and Walmajarri man...
First Nations communities pursue clean drinking water through the courts
First Nations communities in Canada pursue clean drinking water through the courts. Find out more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-first-nations-communities-pursue-clean-drinking-water-through-the/ Photo by Global Water Forum’s Flickr WARNINGS: These...
Meet the Aboriginal family fighting to save the Murray-Darling Basin
Meet the Aboriginal family fighting to save the Murray-Darling Basin. Watch the video on SBS: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1820071491897/meet-the-aboriginal-family-fighting-to-save-the-murray-darling-basin Source: SBS WARNINGS: These stories may contain...