't understand Australia without understanding water. Sold Down the River is compulsory reading for all of us …"The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into … than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 per cent of our food production. In 2012 Australia …

applying certain water management policies in the Australian Murray-Darling Basin, one of the world largest river basins and … Australia’s most fertile region. By comparing different pricing and non-pricing water management policies with the help of the …The economic impact analysis contained in this book shows how irrigation farming is particularly susceptible when …

buybacks are much less costly than upgrades as a means of obtaining a target volume of environmental water. Even during drought …, when highly secure water created by infrastructure upgrades is more valuable, the upgrades remain too costly. As an … four jobs in the basin. CGE modelling ; water buybacks ; regional economies …

availability during drought. The regional impacts of water buybacks in the basin are much smaller than otherwise as a consequence …TERM-H2O, a dynamic, multi-regional model has become a useful tool for analysing water policy issues in the Murray …-Darling basin. Available data indicate that farm factor mobility has been an important avenue of adjustment to sharply reduced water …