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Everyone, Everywhere, Everywhen – Official Trailer 2025
This 37-minute documentary shares strength-based stories from three rivers where the Water Justice Hub has worked as part of the ARC Laureate project.
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Water Watch Radio – Retelling Australia’s Water Story with Professor Quentin Grafton
Today you’re going to hear from a well read, and well written academic on water issues. Professor Quentin Grafton recently published a book, and the launch of the book was accompanied with an address to the National Press Club and an article in the Conversation. The...
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...