The Crisis About Australia's Most Precious Commodity.
None of us can take water for granted anymore. Thanks to the overuse and abuse of our water, we face an economic and social crisis of monumental proportions. For decades there has been a failure to manage this country's precious supply of water.
Too often water authorities have been inept (or worse, corrupt) in the allocation and management of water. Even more extraordinary has been that governments were aware of these failures but did nothing to fix the problem. Above all, there has been a leadership vacuum because no government wants to be the one that makes the hard decisions, to alienate the city, industry, the greens or the bush.
Who is making the plans to conserve our water? How is the balancing act that takes into account all the competing agendas to be achieved? Who is making money out of our water? What can we learn from other countries? In 'Watershed' Ticky Fullerton reveals the extent of the problem that will confront us all too soon.
