New Research Report - Sustainable Water Allocation Research Program
May 31, 2001
A new report from the Sustainable Water Allocation Research Program is now available from the Centre Office - 'Irrigator and Community Attitudes to Water Allocation and Trading in the Goulburn Broken Catchment' by John Tisdell, John Ward, Tony Grudzinski (Griffith University), and Geoff Earl (Goulburn-Murray Water) (CRC Report 01/3)
CRC Project 3.2 'Enhancement of the Water market Reform Process' is exploring ways of enhancing the water market reform process by conducting a socioeconomic analysis of guidelines and procedures for trading in mature water markets. Existing trading rules and procedures and their impact on regional towns and communities will be evaluated and, in partnership with industry and other interest groups, scenarios and rules and procedures for trade in the year 2010 will be developed.
Phase 1 of the project involved gleaning irrigator and community current attitudes to water reform and their expectations of the future. This report outlines the findings of a survey of community and irrigators on the acceptance of water reform, the impact of water markets on regional communities and towns, and perceptions of the future direction of water markets as a result of trade in the Goulburn Broken catchment.
The survey findings contribute to the overall project in providing vital information on irrigators, and their attitudes to breaking the nexus between land and water, points of blockage in current water markets, and possible adjustments to trading rules and procedures.
Copies of this report can be ordered through the Centre Office. (The price of $27.50 each includes postage and handling and GST in Australia.)
For further information contact Virginia Verrelli at the Centre Office on or email
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