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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 the price we pay for it? It’s probably not something many of us think about. Like death and taxes, water bills are just...

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WaterTalk: Quentin Grafton

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), presents: Responding to the World Water...

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Media release

Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977 to New York in 2023 UN 2023 Water Conference, UN Headquarters, New York, 22-24 March 2023 Access at ResearchGate a free preprint/draft of the article ‘Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977...

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Scoping Solidarity – Societal Dialogues – for Water Justice

UN 2023 Water Conference Side Events

We invite First Nations and faith leaders, scientists and policymakers, universities, global networks, and local communities to a process of storytelling, designed to generate transformative commitments for water action with people from around the world.

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Art, Voice & Justice Exhibition: ‘Aquawhen III?’

The Water Justice Hub was formally established on 14 October 2019 as an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University. The Hub is supported by a five-year Australian Research Council Laureate...

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