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Murray-Darling Basin water theft laws suck more than river irrigation pumps

Water is one of Australia’s most valuable commodities. Rights to take water from our nation’s largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, are worth almost A$100 billion. These rights can be bought and sold or leased, with trade exceeding . But water is also being stolen (no-one knows how much) and the thieves usually get away with it.

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Australia’s least wanted – 8 alien species and diseases we must keep out of our islandÌýhome

This week’s landmark report on the impact ofÌý revealed costs to the global economy exceeded US$423 billion (A$654 billion) a year in 2019. Costs have at leastÌý every decade since 1970 and that trend is set to continue.

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PODCAST: Water: too much, too little, too dirty

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Water buybacks are back on the table in the Murray-Darling Basin. Here’s a refresher on how theyÌýwork.

The Federal government has announced a new round of strategic water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin. The government intends to purchase water entitlements from voluntary sellers in parts of New South Wales and Queensland.

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Future Fellowship announcement

Congratulations to Environment Institute's , who was awarded an for his project 'Quantifying the economic and social impacts of drought in rural Australia' in the recently announced round.

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Understanding global trade networks could help us spread the load of environmental contamination

Rice travels a long way to get to your dinner plate. It may have been harvested from a paddy field in Vietnam, processed and packaged in a factory in Bangladesh, and transported via freight ship to eventually land in your local supermarket.

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ARC Success for EnvironmentÌýInstitute

Congratulations to our Environment Institute members who have been awarded over $2.8M across five ARC Discovery Projects and two ARC LIEF Project.

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Research suggests reliance on modern irrigation technologies is a 'zombie' theory

A team of scientists, including experts from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a ‘zombie idea’ – one that persists no matter how much evidence is thrown against it.

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