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The work to be done - to challenge and shape the course of the future of water - will be spread across many people and done in many workplaces, places of learning and government, businesses, on the land and in communities and homes. Below you will find links to the people who have been mentioned by our panellists, links to actual source documents and to the references where there is not access to the original source.
Certain text descriptions are taken from Wikipedia, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Wendy Elford on video at 2:30
Erin O'Donnell
- Erin O’Donnell (LinkedIn)
- Erin O’Donnell contributed to World Bank Consultancy
- Erin O’Donnell at University of Melbourne
Katrina Donaghy
Anne Poelina
- Anne Poelina (Wikipedia page)
- Anne Poelina (ANU Water Justice Hub)
- Anne Poelina (Notre Dame University)
- Anne Poelina (Fitzroy River Council)
Wikipedia Page Fitzroy River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_River_(Western_Australia)
The Wurundjeri are an Aboriginal Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation.
Erin O’Donnell on Video at 7:20
Water trading is the process of buying and selling water access entitlements.
More about Australian water markets (Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment)
"Pumped - Four Corners" on water theft (ABC, 24 July 2017)
Flood Plain Harvesting (ABC, 26 May 2021)
Wikipedia page Millennial Drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought
CSIRO review of groundwater recharge studies (CSIRO, May 2010)
Virginia Marshall wrote on the concept of Aqua Nullius
- AIATIS as publisher (AIATSIS book page)
- Marshall, V. (2017). Overturning aqua nullius: securing Aboriginal water rights. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Blog post by Erin O’Donnell on Recognition of Rivers as living beings (ACU, 7 December 2021)
Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations on percentage of water held by Indigenous Australians
- NAIDOC week Media Release
- Report (MLDRIN, 2020)
- Hartwig, L. D., Jackson, S., & Osborne, N. (2020). Trends in Aboriginal water ownership in New South Wales, Australia: The continuities between colonial and neoliberal forms of dispossession. _Land Use Policy, 99_, 104869.
- Hartwig, L. D., Markham, F., & Jackson, S. (2021). Benchmarking Indigenous water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin: a crucial step towards developing water rights targets for Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 25(2), 98-110.
- The status of Aboriginal water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin. Hartwig, L.D., & Jackson, S. (2020). The status of Aboriginal water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin. ARI Report No. 2020/004. Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400302
Wendy Elford on video at 16:00
Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment page on history of water markets in Australia https://www.awe.gov.au/water/policy/markets/history
Katrina Donaghy on video at 17:50
Wikipedia page Turbal people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrbal
Addition to Katrina at video 19:00: Katrina adds that her “background in government, utilities and the not-for-profit sector still influences me to this day.”
Addition to Katrina at video 19:10: Katrina adds “When the technology found me in 2015, I found a book about Bitcoin in my children’s council library which I borrowed without hesitation. I had to read every page slowly and sometimes twice as it challenged the way I have bought up to think about money and monetary systems.”
Addition to Katrina at video 19:24: Katrina adds “it was impossible to share data across government agencies and so much money was spent to recreate that same data in different systems.”
Addition to Katrina at video 19:47: Katrina adds that “It was then a number of conversations and serendipity that led me to co-founding a startup to build solutions with blockchain technology. Civic Ledger was founded in late 2016”
Wikipedia page Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Wikipedia page Governance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance
Wikipedia page Non Fungible Token https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
Addition to Katrina at video 20:54, Katrina adds “With the inclusion of smart contracts, no water market information can be possibly omitted from the transaction.”
Allan Dale
- Allan Dale Allan Dale (JCU bio)
- Allan Dale Allan Dale (LinkedIn)
Joe Moro
- Joe Moro (LinkedIn)
- Joe Moro (FNQ Growers Association)
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority.
- RBA (home page)
- RBA (Wikipedia)
Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has three initial focus areas of Agriculture and food, Northern Australia health service delivery and Traditional Owner-led business development
- CRCNA (home page)
- CRCNA and Civic Ledger Scaling Next Generation Water Markets in Northern Australia
- Scaling next generation water markets in Northern Australia
Australian Financial Review
Cassian Drew
- Cassian Drew (LinkedIn)
Anne Poelina on video at 26:46
Yawuru home page http://www.yawuru.org.au/
Peter Cullen
BBC Show reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p080h12j/this-river-can-sue-you-in-a-court-of-law
Blogpost by Mikki Cusack on Indigenous knowledge as building resilience to climate change (the-Inkline.com, 12 Oct 2020)
Martuwarra home page https://martuwarrafitzroyriver.org/voicesofmartuwarra
La Meuse Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse
The Finke River, or Larapinta (Arrernte), is a river in central Australia, one of four main rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin and thought to be the oldest riverbed in the world. Wikipedia page Finke River (Wikipedia page)
Martuwarra RiverOfLife peer reviewed article on rivers as systems with their own law
- Publisher’s download page
- RiverOfLife, M., Taylor, K. S., & Poelina, A. (2021). Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 25(1), 40-56. doi:10.1080/13241583.2021.1880538
First Law is described in a blogpost by Marlkka Perdrisat (Junkee.com, 12 Nov 2020)
The tale of Tiddalik the Frog is a creation story from Australian Indigenous Dreaming Stories. Tidalik / Tiddalik Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik
World Rivers Day blogpost on justice and equity https://globalwaterforum.org/2021/09/29/martuwarra-fitzroy-river-voice-for-peace-world-rivers-day-2021/
Erin O’Donnell on video at 38:11
Erin O’Donnell speaks about Legal rights for rivers: a paradox for water governance (Youtube, 31 July 2019
Sigal Samuel shares a blogpost on collective action to constitute Lake Eyrie as a legal person (vox.com, 26 Feb 2019)
Nicole Pallotta of the Animal Legal Defence Fund shares a blogpost on how decision on personhood for Lake Eyrie was overturned (aldf.org, 4 May 2020)
An article by Erin O’Donnell describing how legally constituted rivers don’t have their own water rights
- Publisher’s page
- O’Donnell, E. (2020). 29 Griffith L. Rev. 643 (2020) Rivers as Living Beings: Rights in Law, but No Rights to Water? Griffith Law Review, 29, 643-668. Retrieved from https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/griffith29&div=35&id=&page=
Katrina Donaghy on video at 45:10
Australian Legislation for the Water Act home page http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/wa200783/
David Barbeller wrote for Current Magazine of the Australian Water Association in May, 2018 on The New Valuation of Water.
- Original publication Location 78-79/140 (Current Magazine)
- Republished as blog post (AWA website)
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology overview on water markets is found at http://www.bom.gov.au/water/market/
Information about Mareeba Dimbulah water scheme is found at https://www.sunwater.com.au/schemes/mareeba-dimbulah/
Fraser Macleod of Civic Ledger wrote a blog post for Medium titled Caring for Water and Country — A Technology Approach with subscription, this blogpost is available on Medium
Jessica Sier writes a blogpost for the Australian Financial Review on how to use technology to get the governance on water right
- AFR, 14 Jan 2022
- Sier, J. (2022, Jan14). Water trading blockchain could go live by mid-year in far north Qld. Retrieved from https://www.afr.com/technology/water-trading-blockchain-could-go-live-by-mid-year-in-far-north-qld-20220112-p59np7
Addition Katrina at video 45:45 Katrina adds that “We do acknowledge that the regulation that's in place, the Water Act, is the legal instrument that determines the institutional arrangements necessary for water to be issued to a licensee. These institutional arrangements are place specific and are made up of a range of business and operating rules to enforce compliance.”
Addition Katrina at video 45:50 Katrina adds “Digitising the water entitlement or allocation and associating it to a water license that is compliant to a water resource system’s business and operating rules is to essentially manage water as a public good but also enable it to be an economic driver.”
Katrina Donaghy on video at 52:15
Examples of the five water exchanges in Australia
- Home page https://www.waterexchange.com.au/
- Home page https://www.waterfind.com.au/
Addition Moderator comments at video 54:32 that while trustless is the correct term used in the industry, the term is seen by some commentators as ambiguous – the idea is that blockchain is trustless or works on trustlessness means not that trust is absent, but it is distributed between members of the process so the total amount of trust needed by any one member is minimised).
Addition Katrina at video 54:30 Katrina adds “When the smart contracts execute, events are emitted creating an audit log of all transactions associated with that water scheme which is accessible to all.”
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Anne Poelina on video at 56:18
Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment page summarises the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) https://www.awe.gov.au/agriculture-land/land/nrs/science/ibra
CSIRO publication as an example of the overall approach to water accounting; Anne Poelina describes this as “Everything is speculation, everything is modelling” (CSIRO, 2016)
Anne Poelina asks “Where’s the next water source?” and sees the Martuwarra as at risk; consider Amalyah Hart blog post “The fight for the Martuwarra” (Cosmos Magazine, 2 Sept 2021)
The concept of Living together in the regions may be captured partially in 2002 report on integrated catchment management (Murray-Darling Basin Authority, January 2002)
An example with graphics on the logic of why rivers are living water systems are important (Murray-Darling Basin Authority, n.d.)
Distributive Water Justice is a concept at the centre of the Water Justice Hub at ANU. Here is an interview with Professor Quentin Grafton published by Shreya Gyawali after the launch on 28 Sept 2020. (woroni.com, 28 November 2020)
Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:03:30
Water decision making https://www.edo.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Deficiencies-Water-Law-NT.pdf
Singleton water license https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-15/nt-approves-singleton-station-water-licence-with-new-conditions/100620724
The Northern Territory Government has a system for water allocation planning https://depws.nt.gov.au/water/water-management/water-allocation-plans
Another unique aspect of NT Government planning is their Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserves https://depws.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/457553/SWRC-Policy-Framework_A4_V1.pdf
There are advantages in placed based planning arrangements; Erin O’Donnell asks us to consider the experience in Victoria https://www.vic.gov.au/framework-place-based-approaches/print-all
Anne Poelina on video at 1:07:35
Australia is presenting itself as open to significant investment in the north of Australia in documents such as this one from Austrade https://www.austrade.gov.au/international/invest/opportunities/northern-australia
The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment provides information on biosphere reserves https://www.awe.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/conservation/australias-biosphere-reserves
UNESCO presents information on global geoparks https://en.unesco.org/global-geoparks
Wikipedia page on bioprospecting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Annual Report is one example of how the capacity for including Indigenous wisdom and knowledge as a guide to development is important https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-reports/indigenous-land-and-sea-corporation/reporting-year/2019-20-4
Draft water allocation plans exist across the north of Western Australia including one for Derby https://consult.dwer.wa.gov.au/water-policy/derby-groundwater-allocation-plan/supporting_documents/Derby_groundwater_allocation_plan.pdf
Anne Poelina gives the example of early experiences of saltwater Intrusion into the Martuwarra. Salt water intrusion is reported by Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment https://www.awe.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ssr191.pdf
There is a call out to Indigenous Australians Indigenous Economic Development Strategy
Climate change is impacting here https://www.awe.gov.au/science-research/climate-change
Allan Dale is an author book titled “Leading from the North: Rethinking northern Australian development”
- Publisher’s site
- Brewer, T., Dale, A., Gerritsen, R., Harwood, S., Prideaux, B., Rosenman, L., & Wallace, R. (2021). Leading from the North: Rethinking Northern Australia Development. In: ANU Press.
Anne Poelina on video at 1:16:16
Indigenous Science is described by CSIRO https://www.csiro.au/en/research/indigenous-science
Katrina Donaghy on video at 1:16:57
Katrina Donaghy describes work done by CSIRO. This article describes digital soil mapping, included here as an example of the types of technologies available.
- Science direct page
- Searle, R., McBratney, A., Grundy, M., Kidd, D., Malone, B., Arrouays, D., . . . Andrews, K. (2021). Digital soil mapping and assessment for Australia and beyond: A propitious future. Geoderma Regional, 24, e00359. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2021.e00359
Wikipedia page for the concept of the technology divide also known as the digital divide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide
Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:18:56
Kinds of questions scientists are trying to answer; while this blog comes from the perspective of medical research, the approach still has relevance for research about water https://www.science.org/content/article/science-community
Participatory modelling of environmental water flows https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2913/
This report takes a holistic view of rivers in sustaining lives and livelihoods starting with considering the importance of the natural state of bodies of water and environmental water https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au/static/FullTextFiles/070624.pdf
Biodiversity stewardship discussed from the perspective of
- An agricultural supplier
- Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment
- National Farmers Federation
Erin O’Donnell on video at 1:22:18
Authorizing environment as a concept in an academic realm
- A working paper by Center for International Development at Harvard University
- A video from Center for International Development at Harvard describing the process (Youtube, 18 Jan 2014)
Water values in Australia are described by CSIRO https://www.publish.csiro.au/ebook/chapter/9780643103283_Chapter_2
Anne Poelina on video at 1:24:45
Anne Poelina discusses the illusion of probity in ‘On just terms” https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=05f7d1e3-7d10-4c80-8ddf-cb894b78b6b2&subId=685165