Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas
Annex A - Murray-Darling Basin
The Murray-Darling Basin case study, Annex A, of the commission research paper Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas, was released on 3 October 2003.
Twelve case studies, which should be read in conjunction with the main report, were prepared to assist the understanding of the complex legal, organisational and management arrangements of the jurisdictions studied. They are:
- Murray–Darling Basin
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- Colorado River Basin
- California
- Colorado
- Chile
- Mexico
- South Africa
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Abbreviations, Preface
1 The water sector
2 Legal framework
2.1 CoAG Water Reform Framework
2.2 Murray–Darling Basin Agreement
2.3 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
3 Organisations
3.1 Murray–Darling Basin Initiative
3.2 Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council
4 Definition of water rights
4.1 Murray–Darling Basin Agreement
5 Government involvement in water allocation
5.1 The Cap
5.2 The Living Murray Initiative
5.3 Allocation mechanism
5.4 Resource planning
6 Administering water rights
7 Distribution management
7.1 Water accounting
7.2 Water distribution
8 Pricing
8.1 Pricing infrastructure services
8.2 Pricing water rights management
8.3 Pricing environmental third-party effects
9 Monitoring and enforcement
9.1 Compliance strategies
9.2 Monitoring procedures
9.3 Enforcement procedures
References
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