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Water and the Law: what rights does SA have to water upstream?

Listen to a or view the of a presentation given by Professor John Williams and Mathew Lee. The seminar entitled "Water and the Law" assesses both the genesis and development of water law in Australia in order to provide an explanation of how we have arrived at this current water crisis. In the Advertiser the South Australian Minister for the River Murray and Water Security said, the State Governmnet will not take the New South Wales Government to the High Court to contest rights to the flood waters as any submission would fail. Read the article . In their seminar John and Mathew explain why South Australia has no jurisdiction over the water being injected into the Murray-Darling Basin from the floods in NSW.

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Mike Young comments on floodwater damming

"³ÉÈË´óƬ Environment Institute executive director Mike Young said existing regulations allowed NSW to fill dams and flood wetlands before water reached Menindee. "Investing in infrastructure means NSW and Victoria have a much greater capacity to run the system so that SA gets its absolute minimum," Professor Young said. "The original spirit of the agreement was that the minimum was going to be the worst case (scenario). "The minimum is now the norm." "

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A new appointment for Mike Young

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International Science Linkages- Science Academies Program

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Freshwater Research News

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Happy New Year!

The Environment Institute is back for another year of new ideas. Already new in 2010 is a page for the Institute, where you can keep up to date with the goings on around the different centres and programs. Another new addition is the Woodland Recovery section of the Environment Institute website. You can find a link on the .

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