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Enhancement of the Water Market Reform Process

John Tisdell

Publication Type:

Technical Report
This is a publication of the current CRC for Catchment Hydrology

CRC Program:

Sustainable Water Allocation

Publication Keywords:

Water Allocation
Water Policy
Marketing
Rights
Extraction Procedures
Economics
Cost Effectiveness
Environmental Flow
Water Management
Water Use
Environmental Management
Efficiency

Abstract / Summary:

Enhancement of the Water Market Reform Process: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Guidelines and Procedures for Trading in Mature Water Markets

FOREWORD
This report summarises the main findings of Project 3.2 (GRU25):'Enhancement of the water market reform process: a socioeconomic analysis of guidelines and procedures for trading in mature water markets'. The project involved a broad survey of the literature and current government policy on water reform, an extensive survey of irrigator and community attitudes to water reform across the three rural focus catchments of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Catchment Hydrology and the development and implementation of experimental methods to water management; its auctioning and self governance. This report should be read in conjunction with the other CRC for Catchment Hydrology reports (listed below) arising from the project as they give the depth that an overview report of this nature cannot. I wish to thank the CRC for Catchment Hydrology and The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation, Land and Water Australia for funding this work.

John Tisdell, Griffith University, Program Leader - Sustainable Water Allocation, CRC for Catchment Hydrology

Project 3.2 Related Reports
CRC Technical Report 02/5 - 'The Development of Water Reform in Australia' by John Tisdell, John Ward, Tony Grudzinski - May 2002

CRC Technical Report 01/5 - 'Irrigator and Community Attitudes to Water Allocation and Trading: A Comparative Study of the Goulburn Broken and Fitzroy Catchments' by John Tisdell, John Ward and Tony Grudzinski - September 2001

CRC Technical Report 01/3 -'Irrigator and Community Attitudes to Water Allocation and Trading in the Goulburn Broken Catchment' by John Tisdell, John Ward, Tony Grudzinski and Geoff Earl - May 2001

CRC Technical Report 01/2 - 'Irrigator and Community Attitudes to Water Allocation and Trading in the Fitzroy Catchment' by John Tisdell, John Ward and Tony Grudzinski - June 2001

CRC Technical Report 01/1 - 'Irrigator and Community Attitudes to Water Allocation and Trading in the Murrumbidgee Catchment' by John Tisdell, John Ward and Tony Grudzinski - October 2001

The above reports are available for purchase from the Centre Office or for downloading at www.catchment.crc.org.au/publications. Search under 'Sustainable Water Allocation'

CRC Technical Report 03/10 will is available for downloading below.

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