Who is Responsible for Water Management?
McKay, Jennifer (2010) 'Who is responsible for water management?', Adelaide: water of a city pp. 243-265
24 Pages Posted: 31 Jul 2014
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
Defining our water and who is responsible for it are two vexed concepts in many parts of the world, especially in Australia, and Adelaide in particular. For South Australia the picture looks like this: there are many types of our water, multiple types of water stakeholders and human users, and a mosaic of laws and policies that have created organisations responsible for our water. Laws, policies and organisations have evolved over time in response to stakeholder understandings of the issues and demands for different economic and ecological outcomes from water use. It is not a static picture. Indeed, it is an interactive and highly interrelated picture; if you change one aspect, all others need to change in response.
Keywords: water management, Australian water
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