On today’s episode of Riverside Chats, Quentin Grafton speaks with David Hannah, who is a Professor of Hydrology at the University of Birmingham. Listen here:
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Today is World Water Day. It calls attention to the urgent need for a just and sustainable water future amid challenges including climate change, governance failures, and inequality.

Our Water Justice Hub advocates for water justice, particularly for First Nations Peoples in…

World Water Day is celebrated each year on the 22 March. This year, with its theme of ‘Leveraging Water for Peace’, Glenn Loughrey, Anne Poelina and Quentin Grafton, invite everyone to read The Statement from the Heart globalwaterforum.org/2024/03/22/tow…

We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My latest piece on where the world is going (or trying). Transition versus transformation; change is needed but how fast? | Sustainability Bites ⁦Water Justice Hub⁩ sustainabilitybites.com/transition-ver…

Rolfe et al (2024) focused on sixteen major issues relevant to the Murray Darlin Basin river management that have been identified through other reviews. These sixteen issues were then prioritised with a Best Worst Scaling (BWS) experiment. globalwaterforum.org/2024/02/29/the…

“..,we analyse existing evidence for five major drivers of water stress on Amazonian forests, …that, if crossed, could trigger local, regional or even biome-wide forest collapse.”
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Critical transitions in the Amazon | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Professor Gupta offers her perspective on the relationship between water security and justice. Listen to the latest WJH podcast episode here: tinyurl.com/ru656bd4

Join us for #NatureWaterTalks organised by the editors of Nature Water Journal.
🗓️ WHEN: Friday, February 9, 2024, 7:00 AM AEDT
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'In Australia, large cities have very good water supplies that supply to well monitored quality standards.  But this is not the case in remote and regional areas.'thewire.org.au/story/water-qu…

Australians say they’ll pay for everyone to have good quality drinking water (because not everyone does)

This includes safe, clean drinking water to hundreds of remote communities where this basic service is lacking.

New study in Nature Water

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Interview with Quentin Grafton at the 38th minute about the WJH's new study. Surveying over 3,500 Australians, it found that the average household would be willing to pay $324-$847 per year to expand drinking water infrastructure. tinyurl.com/mrxbjexw

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Australian households are willing to pay more than is needed to deliver safe drinking water to every Australian, according to the latest publication from the Water Justice Hub team.
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Latest publication from the Water Justice Hub team. Benefits, costs and enabling conditions to achieve ‘water for all’ in rural and remote Australia | Nature Water ⁦Water Justice Hub⁩ nature.com/articles/s4422…

'Residents in parts of flood-devastated Far North Queensland have lost access to drinking water while authorities race to fix a badly damaged water treatment plant.'
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'It's going to take a monumental shift in philosophy of governments to be able to say that Aboriginal people can have vested rights in water,' Mr Ross said. Water Justice Hub Global Water Forum
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Environmental water released helped native fish migrate over key barriers while supporting the river’s overall health.

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The Bureau's summer long-range forecast shows a high chance of warmer than usual days and nights across Australia, below-average rainfall likely for much of the tropics and Western Australia, and more neutral rainfall signal for the rest of the continent.

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Intense rainfall, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has led to extensive flooding throughout the Horn of Africa.

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