TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,Scott
AU  - Kells,Stuart
TI  - Sold down the river: how robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market 
SN  - 9781922458124
U1  - 333.73 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Melbourne, Vic.
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Australia
KW  - Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.)
KW  - Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Water transfer
KW  - Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Ecology
KW  - fast
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Darling River Watershed
KW  - Murray River Watershed
KW  - Environmental studies
KW  - Pollution measurement & control
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Origins -- Making the market -- Playing the market -- Cornering the market -- Fixing the market
N2  - "The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 per cent of our food production. In 2012 Australia signed up to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a scheme designed to create a market for the Basin's water and to safeguard the environment. But the Plan has gone horribly wrong. It has sold our farmers and rural communities down the river. It has contributed to appalling environmental damage on the planet's driest inhabited continent. It has allowed a ruthless market to form, exploited by traders who buy and sell water as if it were a currency like Bitcoin. Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells, both experts in public policy, have interviewed irrigators, farmers, Traditional Custodians and water traders to tell this disastrous story. In doing so, they bring to light how we have failed to protect our most precious natural resource. You can't understand Australia without understanding water. Sold Down the River is compulsory reading for all of us"--Publisher's description
ER  -