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

See all articles by Jennifer Margaret McKay

Jennifer Margaret McKay

University of South Australia - School of Law; University of Lincoln (UK) - Faculty of Business & Law

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

Suggested Citation

McKay, Jennifer Margaret, Who is Responsible for Water Management? (2010). McKay, Jennifer (2010) 'Who is responsible for water management?', Adelaide: water of a city pp. 243-265 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2474485

Jennifer Margaret McKay (Contact Author)

University of South Australia - School of Law ( email )

GPO Box 2471
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia

University of Lincoln (UK) - Faculty of Business & Law ( email )

Lincoln
United Kingdom

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
37
Abstract Views
500
PlumX Metrics