/newsroom/ en /newsroom/news/list/2024/08/19/politicisation-of-water-use-exacerbates-farmers-distrust Researchers have found that in agricultural areas with declining resource availability, climate-adaptation risks increase when discussion about water allocation becomes politicised. August 19 2024 Johnny von Einem /newsroom/news/list/2024/08/19/politicisation-of-water-use-exacerbates-farmers-distrust /newsroom/news/list/2021/10/28/blasting-the-zombie-out-of-water-saving-tech 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. October 28 2021 Kelly Brown /newsroom/news/list/2021/10/28/blasting-the-zombie-out-of-water-saving-tech /newsroom/news/list/2021/07/08/experts-refute-river-murray-estuary-claims A team of scientists, led by the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Associate Professor John Tibby, has confirmed that the lower River Murray was not an estuary in the mid-Holocene period (more than 7000 years ago) – reinforcing scientific evidence likely to influence important river management policy decisions. July 08 2021 Kelly Brown /newsroom/news/list/2021/07/08/experts-refute-river-murray-estuary-claims /newsroom/news/list/2021/03/15/water-market-price-rise-myth-busting Researchers at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ have tested claims of water hoarding and speculative behaviour in Murray-Darling Basin water markets and found no evidence of hoarding, or a clear source of speculative behaviour, driving water price rises. March 15 2021 Kelly Brown /newsroom/news/list/2021/03/15/water-market-price-rise-myth-busting