Emerging water markets projects
Investments to improve the specification, registration and trading of titles, water pricing and service provision in water markets.
Storage access provisions: constraints and opportunities
Reviewing the extent and nature of carryover and similar provisions, and their effectiveness in delivering more flexible inter-seasonal access to water held in storages.
Australian Water Markets Report 2009-2010
Improving the performance of Australia's water markets by providing trading, pricing and policy information for market participants.
Factors affecting water market development
Assessing the factors affecting the further development of transparent, competitively neutral and efficient water markets.
Monitoring impacts of water trade in southern Murray-Darling Basin
Assessing and reporting on the economic, social and environmental impacts of water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin.
Development of an adaptive environmental water register
Making publicly available the details of adaptive environmental licences including volumes, locations and intended environmental use.
Water utilities performance reporting - improve data collection systems
Developing a web-based portal that allows for the collection and storage of information reported in the national performance reports.
Facilitating improvements in the specification, registration and trading of water entitlements
Supporting further work under the National Water Initiative to assist with the operation of efficient water markets and helping minimise the transaction costs on water trades through a number of projects to be commissioned.
Improving water pricing to support better water management and more efficient water usage
Four projects to improve water pricing across Australia.
Improving market confidence in water brokers
Investigating national and jurisdictional governance arrangements for the conduct of market intermediaries and appropriate governance options in 2007.
Monitoring the impacts of water trade
Monitoring and reporting economic, environmental and social impacts (both positive and negative) attributable to water trading.
Water utilities performance reporting
Implementing the national benchmarking framework and building capacity of regional and rural water utilities to report on the national performance indicators, proceeding in two stages.
Developing pricing principles for recycled water and stormwater re-use
Developing and implementing pricing policies that encourage the efficient use of recycled water and stormwater in accordance with the direction provided for under the National Water Initiative.
New water entitlements
Developing specifications for new water entitlements that would be required for various new water products likely to be introduced into the water market in the near future.
Victorian State Water Register
Contributing to the finalisation and activation of the single State Water Register and retail account for Victoria. This project is also listed under the water accounting theme.