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Water Action PlansLessons from Australia
Trevor HillGlobal Water
January 2011
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Water Scarcity
Sources: World Resources Institute (2003) and Global Water Intelligence (11 Feb 2010)
[The]“water crisis” is really about the political realization in many parts of the world that we cannot continue to live as if water availability were not a restraint on our activities. It is a bit like coming to terms with the fact that Santa Claus does not exist.
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• In Arizona, cities “function like space stations, importing every ounce of fresh water from distant rivers or fossil aquifers.”
• “In arid places…physics amplify evaporation and drought, visible in the dust-dry farms of the Murray-Darling River Basin in Australia.
Water Sustainability
Source: Barbara Kingsolver, “Water Is Life”, National Geographic, “Water Our Thirsty World”, April 2010
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Learning from the Aussies
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Water Reality
Source: The World Bank, “Making the Most of Scarcity - Accountability for Better Water Management Results in the Middle East and North Africa”, 2007
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THE REALITY OF WATER PRESSURES
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Planning = Preparation
South Australia, Water fro Good
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Price Signals = Conservation
Household water usage in Queensland plummeted almost 40 per cent in four years while the cost of the precious commodity more than doubled.
The cost of water increased from 97 cents per 1000 litres ($3.67/1000 gallons) in 2005 to $2.32 per 1000 litres ($8.79/1000 gallons) last year, a new Australian Bureau of Statistics report has revealed.
According to recent submissions to the Queensland Competition Authority, the state's residents may soon pay the most for the resource after additional price hikes of between 7.5 per cent and 23 per cent in 2011-12.
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Action = Adaptability
Daniel Spiller, Queensland Water Commission, presentation at G’Day USA 2010 Water Policy Forum, “Demand management: The South East Queensland story”, 14 January 2010
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History No Longer The Best Predictor