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Fair Water Use (Australia) is an independent lobby group formed in early 2008 by Australians who share the vision of a revived Murray-Darling basin and the sustainable environmental, community and economic benefits that would flow from its recovery. 

Our support base is representative of a broad spread of the Australian population with members having backgrounds in most trades and professions, including farmers (dry-land and irrigating) and water experts working in both the public and private sector. The organisation has no political affiliations.

We provide access to regularly updated information on the current water crisis.

Please take a moment to register your support: as we continue to grow, so does the impact of our campaign. There is no membership fee.

 

AGENDA: September 2009

  • Immediate declaration of a State of Emergency with respect to the environmental and societal impacts of the Murray-Darling Basin crisis: the Federal Government to assume total responsibility for interim management
  • Establishment of a National Public Commission of Inquiry into the management and governance of the Murray-Darling Basin

  • Legislated protection of water as a "public good"

Related recommendations:

  • Review of water allocations and associated pricing policy

  • Instigation of commercial tendering process with the following precondition:

             Available commercial water allocation =

        Total flows minus Environmental flow requirements minus Public needs

  • Removal of all tax-breaks on agricultural Managed Investment Schemes for water-intensive activities

  • Government purchase of strategic irrigating agribusiness enterprises and associated water allocations, as and when opportunities arise

  • Moratorium on establishment of new irrigated agribusiness and forestry projects 

  • Promotion of low water-demand cropping

  • Proscription of cultivation of selected water-intensive crops

 
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Advocating environmentally-responsible use of Murray-Darling water

Fair Water Use (Australia) is a lobby group formed by everyday Australians who share the vision of a revived Murray-Darling basin and the sustainable environmental, community and economic benefits that would flow from its recovery.