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, Eggleston Road, ANU: 10:00am - 4:30pm
ACT Greens MLA Deb Foskey is organising a regional water forum this Saturday. 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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Public forum 10am -12:30pm
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
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Gold coin donation for morning tea, $10 for lunch if you'd like to stay and chat
For more information please contact Fiona Walls: 02 62050161
