Archive: Water stories hosted by the Water Justice Hub
Water justice in Iraq in the aftermath of war
A fragile peace LAURENCE PHILLIPS As the Middle East is increasingly impacted by water shortages, regional leaders must work together to avoid...
The water-climate change emergency
An Australian story QUENTIN GRAFTON As world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the Australian...
Voices of the Barka River – World Rivers Day 2021
The Water Justice Hub, Australian National University, ANU One of Australia’s most significant rivers, the Barka (Lower Darling), is in crisis....
Learning from Indigenous knowledge
Achieving water justice KATHERINE TAYLOR, ANNE POELINA Australia’s current water framework needs to pay more attention to Indigenous First Law,...
Bending Towards Water Justice – ‘valuing’ water and World Water Day 2021
Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Safa Fanaian (University of Oxford, UK), Gabriela Sacco (Institute for Global Dialogue...
‘Water security’: four myths and why we need a fit-for-purpose definition
By Kat Taylor, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University Australians say we want water security. But what is it? This simple term hides...
Democratic water governance to achieve a human right to water
By Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University, USA. Ten years ago, the global community formally recognized a universal human right to water in a...
A Coalition of Hope! A Regional Governance Approach to Indigenous Australian Cultural Wellbeing
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame The Rainbow Snake is a universal Indigenous Australian living creature...
The impacts of a changing climate on public health
By Dr Aparna Lal, the Australian National University Growing up in India in the 1980s, Dr Aparna Lal had access to running water for only two hours...
Bookarrarra Liyan Mardoowarra Booroo
A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower...
Everyday Australians protecting the places we Love
A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy...
MARDOOWARRA – FITZROY RIVER
By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame Everyone who has an association with the river, whether Indigenous or not,...