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...

"You have heard that 350 GL offers a "low likelihood" of establishing the River Murray as a healthy working river, 750 GL a "low-to-modems likelihood, and 1,600 GL a "moderate" likelihood". "The question of how much to secure is still an open question".

Imagine what would happen if we valued ecosystems as if they mattered. Imagine what would happen if good environmental managers had the advantage and bad environmental managers got penalised. All we need to do is reverse the onus of responsibility and create opportunity.

This report provides a preliminary “first cut” assessment of the conclusions likely to arise from a more complete assessment of the economic, financial and social implications of environmental flow enhancement.

At a roundtable, participants are encouraged to go for the bottom line and assume that people have comprehensive knowledge of the issues. The focus of this paper is on opportunities to improve Australia's environment.

Establishing a robust, transparent regulatory water accounting framework that protects the integrity of entitlements.

Volume 1 (Main Report), Consultancy report for the National Land and Water Resources Audit, Theme 6.1. This report presents new datasets developed through the National Land and Water Resources Audit that relate to economic aspects of natural resource management in Australia. There is a focus on...

First stage report to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.

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...