evidence that droughts may become more frequent in the future, it is clear that even without an increase in frequency, drought …

for, and respond to drought. Some of those efforts are beginning to shift from purely reactive, relief-oriented measures … to programs designed to prevent or to mitigate drought impacts. Considerably less attention has been given to laws that … may affect practices and policies that either increase or decrease drought vulnerability. Water law regimes, drought …

measures, the worst drought in our history. Irrigators have received only small fractions of their normal allocations of water … continues on the extent to which the recent drought was the result of (natural or anthropogenic) climate change, and therefore … planning, are unlikely to recur. Despite the breaking of the drought in most regions, therefore, Australian water policy must …