Australian water reform 2009
The National Water Commission has released Australian water reform 2009 - a comprehensive report that assesses how all Australian governments are tracking on the reform commitments they made under the National Water Initiative.
The assessment finds that although some progress has been made on meeting the Initiative's ambitious policy prescriptions, climate change has exacerbated the problems and an urgent re-commitment to reform is required.
The Commission's assessment provides advice to the Council of Australian Governments on the actions required to better realise Australia's national water reform objectives.
2009 Biennial Assessment - Overview and full report
Video of address to CEDA (the Committee for Economic Development of Australia) by CEO Ken Matthews
A national synthesis of river restoration projects
A new report recommends a national database to share river restoration project information and experiences, to allow people to learn from the success or failure of projects and to monitor and evaluate results. The database would be able to highlight the crucial ingredients for successful river restoration projects, and how best to go about ensuring that new projects build on this experience rather than reinventing approaches already tried.
Read the report.