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)...
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,...
By Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University, USA. Ten years ago, the global community formally recognized a universal human right to water in a United Nations resolution. While a major milestone in the effort to secure adequate freshwater for all people globally,...
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame The Rainbow Snake is a universal Indigenous Australian living creature responsible for the creation and protection of waterways. Countless generations of traditional owners have cared for the...
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 a day, and it wasn’t always clean. At the time she didn’t even question this, until she moved to New Zealand...
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 River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Anne is the Managing Director of Madjulla Inc., Chair of the...
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 River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Anne is the Managing Director of Madjulla Inc., Chair of the...
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame Everyone who has an association with the river, whether Indigenous or not, talks about how important it is. It is the River of Life.[1] The Mardoowarra (Martuwarra or Fitzroy River) is an iconic,...