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,...

Increasing water demand due to population growth and economic development under the mounted investment costs for developing new water sources calls for efficient, equitable and sustainable management of water resources in many developing countries. This is more essential in the Aral Sea basin...

In many parts of the world, mine production and expansion are increasingly limited by access to water. One solution is to consider a water market that would allow trading of mine site water (worked water) from wetter mines to drier mines. However, there is currently no policy support for such a...

Climate change and its consequences are the focus of many environmental policies in the European Union but also in other countries. Whereas in the US marketable instruments like permit trading have already been implemented since the 1980s, the EU first implemented permit trading for CO2...