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Delivering a Safer and More Just Water Future
On 29th September 2023, the Water Justice Hub hosted "Drinking Water Quality in Rural and Remote Communities in Australia". The event showcased a new 5-year project entitled 'Improving Remote Indigenous Community Health through Good Quality Drinking Water' supported...
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 safer and more just water future. Climate change; the need for rising food production; rapidly rising incomes that...
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 growing world water crisis. It’s also the title of a just published global review describing the causes and possible...
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...
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...
A referee report on 2023 Menindee Mass Fish Kill: How it happened
A desktop investigation unravelling the operational decisions that preceded the death of 20 million fish by Megan Williams and Dan Schulz Compiled by John Williams, FTSE Honorary Professor, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy Former Commissioner, NSW Natural...
Scoping Solidarity, Societal Dialogues on Water Justice
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2023 Menindee Mass Fish Kill: How it happened
A desktop investigation unravelling the operational decisions that preceded the death of 20 million fish by Megan Williams and Dan Schulz [pdf-embedder...
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands), Safa Fanaian (Australian National University, Australia), Joyeeta Gupta (University of...
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...