Consultancy Report 2 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. This second report focuses on pricing water to manage the catchment water resources in a sustainable manner. A key conclusion of this report is that there are significant opportunities to improve resource use through...

Consultancy Report 1 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. This report considers the institutional framework which shapes the operating environment for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. The report highlights some of the impediments to Best Practice.

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

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.

Report to the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation. This document presents a review of NRM decision support techniques. It draws upon previous studies in the fields of management science, operations research, environmental economics and natural resource management. The...

Consultancy Report 3 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. The report lays out a set of recommendations regarding opportunities for consideration in future strategic planning in four areas of interest to the OCWMB.A portfolio of instruments to achieve the Board’s goals are also...

This paper outlines how an area-based water allocation system for irrigating crops could be converted to a system of shares, structured so as to allow the development of a low cost trading market for water and salinity shares. It stresses the need for separation of entitlements of water from...

Consultancy report for the International Water Management Institute. This case study was commissioned by the International Water Management Institute as part of an Asian Development Bank supported regional study on water management institutions. This case study is one of three case studies of...