Quentin Grafton and Safa Fanaian, The Australian National University ‘Too much, too little, and too dirty’ sums up the problems underpinning the growing world water crisis. It’s also the title of a just published global review describing the causes and possible...
The Price and Value of Water
Quentin Grafton, Ana Manero, Long Chu & Paul Wyrwoll (The Australian National University) What’s the value of water? Is that value reflected in the price we pay for it? It’s probably not something many of us think about. Like death and taxes, water bills are just...
Barriers to access clean water in Canada
For many Canadians, turning on the tap and filling up the glass doesn’t seem like a huge deal, but for others like those in Canada’s Indigenous communities, it’s not that simple. Indigenous First Nations communities in Canada have been grappling with the issue of...
WaterTalk: Quentin Grafton
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), presents: Responding to the World Water...
A referee report on 2023 Menindee Mass Fish Kill: How it happened
A desktop investigation unravelling the operational decisions that preceded the death of 20 million fish by Megan Williams and Dan Schulz Compiled by John Williams, FTSE Honorary Professor, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy Former Commissioner, NSW Natural...
Scoping Solidarity, Societal Dialogues on Water Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZPKfdFiQAY
2023 Menindee Mass Fish Kill: How it happened
A desktop investigation unravelling the operational decisions that preceded the death of 20 million fish by Megan Williams and Dan Schulz [pdf-embedder...
What’s behind Iraq’s water crisis?
Iraq is running out of water since water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have dropped by half. Iraq’s government blames upstream water use by its neighbours as the primary culprit but has been criticised for not taking any steps at climate mitigation or...
How long does it take to fix a world water crisis (46 years and counting…)?
R. Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Asit K. Biswas (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom), Hilmer Bosch (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Safa Fanaian (Australian National University, Australia), Joyeeta Gupta (University of...
Media release
Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977 to New York in 2023 UN 2023 Water Conference, UN Headquarters, New York, 22-24 March 2023 Access at ResearchGate a free preprint/draft of the article ‘Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977...