Murray Darling Basin: issues in Southern NSW and the ACT
Murray Darling Basin: issues in Southern NSW and the ACT
A REGIONAL WATER FORUM – SAT 17 MAY – ANU INNOVATIONS CENTRE
ACT Greens MLA Deb Foskey is organising a regional water forum this Saturday.
“As the drought tightens again we are reminded that it is time to look at how we live in the Murray Darling basin. This forum is a chance to look at the issues and come up with some ways forward” Dr Foskey said today.
The forum is in two parts. The morning is a public event with a number of speakers with great expertise addressing the regional issues of the Murray Darling Basin. The afternoon will be workshops on policy and actions for NSW, ACT and Australian Greens, and will be closed to the public.
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Murray Darling Basin: issues in Southern NSW and the ACT Public forum 10am – 12:30pm Sat 17 May, Innovations Centre, Eggleston Road, ANU
Speakers and their topics
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: National perspective on MDB management
Sarah Moles: Darling Basin issues
David Dumaresq ANU: Agriculture, Environment and Water: A Zero Sum Game
Dr Daniel Connell ANU: Water Act 2007 and the role of the Commonwealth
Professor R. Quentin Grafton, Crawford School, ANU: Urban Water Pricing
Professor Ian Falconer: Technological fixes: Salinity, desalination plants, water recycling
Lee Rhiannon, NSW Greens MLC: Mining - water use and impacts on water catchments
Councillors Jeremy Buckingham and Cath Moore: Local council perspectives
For more information please contact Fiona Walls: 02 62050161
