GL of irrigation water is used to produce over 40% of the nation's gross value of agricultural production. This …; cotton and field crops). The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. Variable inflows … mean that water property rights do not provide a guaranteed supply. With increasing public scrutiny and environmental …

to deliver water to the environment, potable water supplies for the community and water for irrigation. Water property … rights in the Murray-Darling Basin can be divided into four distinct groups (ground water, high security, general security … and supplementary) reflecting their inherent capacity to deliver water supplies in response to climatic conditions in a …

It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In …

The extended dry conditions in the Murray Darling Basin have resulted in unprecedented levels of reduced water … have prompted the Federal and State Governments to cooperate in a range of environmental water restoration programs …, including environmental water purchases. These programs have been subjected to varying levels of criticism as to the …

of the Agreement for the value of water use in the Murray-Darling Basin. …

The Murray-Darling Basin faces increasing pressure on water quantity and quality. In 2006-07, salt interception schemes … implemented as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Management strategy removed over 470,000 tonnes of salt from the water … supply, reducing the salinity of water flowing to Adelaide by about 200 EC units. However, the costs of salinity mitigation …

For most of the last decade, water policy in Australia has been dominated by emergency responses to what was, on most … measures, the worst drought in our history. Irrigators have received only small fractions of their normal allocations of water …, while urban water users have been subject to restrictions of a stringency unparalleled in our recent experience. Debate …