Problems and Prospects for Water Reallocation in Australia

Dragun, Andrew K.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.1985.tb01069.x

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“…Dragun (1985) has proposed a buyback system, which would make water available and enable non-viable producers to leave irrigation. With new water sources, instead of using the traditional 'first come, first served' system of licence allocation, entitlements could be made available by tender or auction (Anderson 1984).…”

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Managing the Murray‐Darling Basin

Crabb

1988

Australian Geographer

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Within the Murray-Darling Basin lie Australia's most important water and land resources as well as some of the country's most serious resource management problems. This paper summarises the importance of the resource-based industries, especially agriculture. The major agricultural and water resource problems are outlined, with most attention being paid to salinity. Critical to the problems and their solution are the institutional arrangements for the management of this large interstate river basin. The River Murray Waters Agreement, dating from 1914, has had limited success in tackling the basin's problems, because of its limited geographical and functional scope, especially in the area of water quality. The growing severity of the latter problems, especially salinity, resulted in the 1987 signing of the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement to promote and coordinate the management of the basin's water, land and environmental resources. As it is concerned with the basin as a whole, its success is dependent on the full cooperation of the Commonwealth and three state governments involved.

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Section: Water Issuesmentioning

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Managing the Murray‐Darling Basin

Crabb

1988

Australian Geographer

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“…The complexities and difficulties involved with water transfers between different classes of water users have been discussed in substantial depth elsewhere (Dragun, 1983). In such a context the core of water transferability difficulties will be summarized here.…”

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Water management problems in a rapidly developing area: The hunter region of new south Wales

Dragun

1984

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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A rapid phase of resource development and industrial expansion in the Hunter region of New South Wales has brought into focus the impotence of an antiquated structure of water administration. The Hunter development boom, which has been inspired by the region's immense coal reserves, has given rise to a popular belief that severe water shortages existed and that such shortages threatened the very great benefits portended by resource development. However, it is found that the emerging high value demands will not cause significant stresses on the supply system until well into the next decade. Rather, the current perspective of water shortages within the region is found to be a function of the water tariff structure for irrigation and the ironic result is observed that planned supply augmentation will result in additional large volumes of water being diverted to irrigation, at great social cost. At the same time the existing characteristics of water shortages are likely to remain as a consequence of the existing institutional structure. The possibility of institutional reform to achieve more beneficial water use as well as to abrogate existing water shortages is then outlined.

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“…The Literature Dragun [1983] argued that "the actual value of the transfer would be determined by the relative bargaining position of the participants but it would normally be expected that users with low value of marginal product should be willing to receive a payment in line with the value of the income generated by water or slightly higher--as users with high value of marginal product would be willing to pay up to the equivalent value of income generated" (p. 8).…”

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Factors affecting water prices in a rural water market: A South Australian experience

Bjørnlund¹,

McKay²

1998

Water Resources Research

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Abstract. Government agencies and water managers have showed an increasing interest for tradeable water entitlements (TWE) as a tool to alleviate the influence of raising water prices and to facilitate a reallocation of water resources to more efficient and sustainable uses from economic, social, and environmental perspectives. An understanding of how the water market works and which factors determine water right prices has become important to establish whether TWE policies facilitate this process. This research shows that the objectives largely have been achieved and that the more efficient irrigators are willing to pay a higher price for water, whereas the least efficient farmers are willing to sell at a lower price, showing that the buyers with high value of marginal product are willing to pay a price in excess of the value of the income generated by the sellers with low value of marginal product. Within the present legislative framework TWE does not, however, always direct water to the most sustainable users in an equitable manner.

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Problems and Prospects for Water Reallocation in Australia

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Managing the Murray‐Darling Basin

Managing the Murray‐Darling Basin

Water management problems in a rapidly developing area: The hunter region of new south Wales

Factors affecting water prices in a rural water market: A South Australian experience

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