Groundwater Institutional Model in India and Australia
This project was funded by an UniSA Presidents scholarship the CRC for Irrigation Futures www.irrigationfutures.org.au and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Canberra. The field work was conducted in Mt Larcom Queensland and Tinitara SA and Gurajat India. Many publications have resulted. Dr Halaniak'd PhD was well regarded by his international examiners and is available for loan through the UniSA library. His supervisors were Prof McKay and Prof Maria Seleth of the International water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.
Media Release
March 2008
Sharing SA’s groundwater expertise
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Overuse, rising salinity, falling water tables – it seems water management
is an issue the world over Last month, a delegation of 10 high level
academics and senior government officials from Bangladesh, India, China,
Pakistan and Nepal visited South Australia to see the State’s groundwater
management policies at work.
They were here as part of an International Water Management Institute (IWMI) exchange program that took in the Coorong, farms in the State’s South East and market gardens at Virginia.
Director of UniSA’s Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws, Professor Jennifer McKay said the aim of the visit was to share information about current groundwater law policy and practice in South Australia which is advanced by international standards.
Media Release
January 17 2008
Sharing SA's groundwater management expertise
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UniSA is hosting a group of high level academics and senior government
officials from developing Asian countries, here to study South Australia’s
leading groundwater management policies.
The visitors from Bangladesh, India, China, Pakistan and Nepal are in Adelaide as part of an International Water Management Institute (IWMI) exchange program that will take in visits to the Coorong, farms in the State’s South East and market gardens at Virginia.