As part of the Land Stewardship project, this document forms part of a set of papers that contribute to discussion and debate underpinning the preparation of Land Stewardship policy and program proposals. EMS and the potential of its application as a property-level environmental management tool...

Past irrigation development has lead to rising salt loads in the River Murray and its floodplains, and reduced river flows. Even in the absence of any further development, river and floodplain salt loading as the result of this irrigation is anticipated to grow over the decades. Any new...

First stage report to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.

In this paper, six potential MBIs are discussed that have potential for improving environmental outcomes.

The focus of this report is on implementing institutional arrangements for the efficient allocation and management of water. Water is an input into human use including economic production and recreation activities that generate many externalities. It also provides many valuable ecosystem...

Report to the South East Catchment Water Management Board. Water policy in the South East has just completed a period of review and revision. The result has been a pro-rata rollout of most of the unallocated water in the unconfined aquifer of five Prescribed Wells Areas. With this roll-out...

This report provides the Murray-Darling Basin Commission with its first two-year review of the interstate water trading trial. The approach taken for the review involved analysis of the Commission's register of trading arrangements, examination of the associated filing systems and records,...

Customer Service levels in the Australian water industry.