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Sold down the river : how Robber Barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market / Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells.

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333.910994 HAM	Adult Non Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781922458124
Classification	333.910994 HAM
Personal Name	Hamilton, Scott
Title	Sold down the river : how Robber Barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia's water market / Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells.
Publication Details	Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2021.
Production & Copyright Details	Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021.
Physical Description	313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type	text
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note	The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 per cent of our food production. In 2012 Australia signed up to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a scheme designed to create a market for its water and to safeguard the environment. But the Plan has gone horribly wrong. It has sold our farmers and rural communities down the river. It has contributed to appalling environmental damage on the planet's driest inhabited continent. It has allowed a ruthless market to form, exploited by traders who buy and sell water as if it was a currency like Bitcoin. Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells, both experts in public policy, have interviewed irrigators, farmers, Traditional Custodians and water traders to tell this disastrous story. Their compelling exposé brings to light how we have failed to protect our most precious natural resource. You can't understand Australia without understanding water. Sold Down the River is compulsory reading for all of us.
Subject-Corporate Name	Murray Darling Water Management Action Plan
Subject - Topical Term	Rivers -- Australia -- Economic aspects
	Water-supply -- Australia
	Water resources development -- Environmental aspects
	Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Australia
	Environmental sciences -- Australia
	Pollution -- Measurement -- Quality control
Subject - Geographic Name	Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
Subject - Geographic Name	Darling River (Qld. and N.S.W.)
Added Entry - Personal Name	Kells, Stuart author.

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