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Towards Upstream-Downstream Hydrosolidarity Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin
The Murray-Darling Basin is made up of a mosaic of contrasting and competing circumstances and community interests. These contrasts represent formidable impediments to realizing the mutual dependence and commonality of interests required to achieve and maintain true hydrosolidarity across a river basin. This paper discusses Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, draining more than 1 million km2, and the attempts made to coordinate the development and management of the river systems of the basin. Based on the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement in 1993, the main regulating body is the Ministerial Council, consisting of land, water, and environment ministers from each of the state governments involved and the federal government. A commitment to hydrosolidarity is shown by the imposition in 1997 of a moratorium on further water diversions from the system with consequences in terms of redistribution of entitlements. The degree of hydrosolidarity is all the more impressive in view of the widespread incidence of salinity and algal contamination across the basin and the fragmented organizational structure in place to administer this large and diverse region. Yet, problems remain because of contrasts in the level and scale of resource development and in the political interpretation and application between states of supposedly basin-wide initiatives in water resource management.
Towards Upstream-Downstream Hydrosolidarity Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin
The Murray-Darling Basin is made up of a mosaic of contrasting and competing circumstances and community interests. These contrasts represent formidable impediments to realizing the mutual dependence and commonality of interests required to achieve and maintain true hydrosolidarity across a river basin. This paper discusses Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, draining more than 1 million km2, and the attempts made to coordinate the development and management of the river systems of the basin. Based on the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement in 1993, the main regulating body is the Ministerial Council, consisting of land, water, and environment ministers from each of the state governments involved and the federal government. A commitment to hydrosolidarity is shown by the imposition in 1997 of a moratorium on further water diversions from the system with consequences in terms of redistribution of entitlements. The degree of hydrosolidarity is all the more impressive in view of the widespread incidence of salinity and algal contamination across the basin and the fragmented organizational structure in place to administer this large and diverse region. Yet, problems remain because of contrasts in the level and scale of resource development and in the political interpretation and application between states of supposedly basin-wide initiatives in water resource management.
Towards Upstream-Downstream Hydrosolidarity Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin
Pigram, John J. (author)
Water International ; 25 ; 222-226
2000-06-01
5 pages
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