Stranded Irrigation Assets

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Overview

1   Introduction
1.1   Stranded irrigation assets
1.2   Scope of the study
1.3   Conduct of the study

2   Industry arrangements and reforms
2.1   Industry structure
2.2   Governance
2.3   Water supply reliability and technology
2.4   The 1994 reforms
2.5   The National Water Initiative
2.6   Responses to the National Water Initiative

3   Stranded assets and trade
3.1   Stranded assets
3.2   Historical response to stranded assets
3.3   Trade in the southern Murray–Darling Basin
3.4   Strategies to address stranded assets
Attachment 3A   Data tables

4   Pricing
4.1   Pricing of water, entitlements and infrastructure services
4.2   Infrastructure price comparisons
4.3   Pricing issues
4.4   Cost recovery comparisons
4.5   Consequences of increasing charges
4.6   Transition to higher cost recovery
4.7   Net outward trade and price adjustment

5   Fees on exit
5.1   Options for fees on outward trade
5.2   Economic impact
5.3   Financial effects
5.4   Tax implications
5.5   Community effects
5.6   Legal issues
5.7   Implementing fees on exit
5.8   Setting fees

References