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Water speculators “eagerly anticipating” Basin Plan PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 15 November 2010

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As irrigators and environmentalists continue to question the impacts of the proposed Basin Plan, one sector stands to profit handsomely from the inevitable reduction in water diversions, according to water rights and environmental advocacy group, Fair Water Use (Australia).

The group’s coordinator, Ian Douglas, commented today, “Managers of water investment funds are eagerly anticipating the rich pickings that stand to be made from snapping-up high security water entitlements prior to implementation of the Basin Plan - and some have already begun to do so.”

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The future of the Murray-Darling compromised by open-market imperatives PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 27 September 2010

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Today’s announcement, that the Federal Government has again rejected an offer to purchase water entitlements from irrigators in the Wimmera irrigation district, this time at a price almost one third less than previously offered, is an inevitable consequence of the inherently volatile water market which successive Australian governments have sought to establish, according to public water rights and environmental advocacy group, Fair Water Use.

In response to comments from Tony Burke, Federal Minister with responsibility for water, the coordinator of Fair Water Use, Ian Douglas, said that the decision came as no surprise, given the current open-market approach to water resource management in this country; a policy which is being increasingly rejected by overseas legislatures.

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Italy shows Australia the way on water reform PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 05 September 2010

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Recent legislation to privatise water services in Italy has met with staunch public resistance and a well-organised national campaign, resulting in the tabling of a petition of around 1.5 million signatures from citizens opposed to this legislation - three times as many as are required to call a referendum on the issue.

Paolo Carsetti of the Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l’Acqua has pointed out that even the City of Paris has removed control of water supply from the private sector, “when Paris had been the heart of the empire of water multinationals such as Suez and Veolia.".

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Murray-Darling water speculation possibly unconstitutional PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 26 August 2010
 
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The formation of a company established solely to speculate on Australian water, and specifically that in the Murray-Darling Basin, will heighten public concerns about the current water reform process, according to public water rights and environmental advocacy group, Fair Water Use.

Fair Water Use reveals today that Causeway Water Limited is currently on a global fundraising drive to procure an initial $100 million from investors in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific and thereafter intends to focus on the purchase of Murray-Darling water.

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Wentworth Group proposal threatens Australia's water security and Basin food production PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 June 2010

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Although the recommendations made in the paper released yesterday by the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists achieve the necessary reduction in diversions from the Murray-Darling Basin, national environmental and public water-rights advocacy group, Fair Water Use Australia, is concerned that its authors place inappropriate emphasis on minimising the impact on profitable irrigating enterprises, as opposed to those which provide the greatest economic and social benefit to the nation - and Basin communities in particular.

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Advocating environmentally responsible use of Australia's water

Fair Water Use is an independent and politically non-aligned lobby group,

organised and supported by ordinary Australians who share concerns about Australia's water future

- especially that of the Murray-Darling Basin