Key Issues in Australian Water Policy Key points
Group (2006)
Abstract
Although water restrictions are an appropriate short-run response to unexpected supply shortages, only price adjustments can match supply and demand in the long run Trade between irrigation, urban and environmental water use should be enhanced, and will not entail substantial contraction of the value of output from irrigated agriculture A policy based on markets for irrigation water and quantitative controls for urban water is inconsistent and ultimately unsustainable
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