Public Talks
- ICE WaRM Seminar Series
Thursday 19 July 2007 3pm - 5pm
Standards in International Water Law: Relevance to Australia
Please see
flyer (PDF 456kb)
for more information
Here is the PowerPoint in English and Arabic relating to the work in Australian water laws lessons for Iraq which was delivered at UNDP meeting and also at American University of Beirut in June 2007
Paper: Full Text ENGLISH (PDF 513kb); Full Text ARABIC (PDF 633kb)
- People won’t swallow sewerage
1 August, 2006
Media Release (PDF 43.86KB)
People won’t swallow sewerage Industry and agriculture should be encouraged to use recycled sewerage water before households are forced to use it, a World Vision conference in Adelaide will hear tonight. With domestic water only accounting for about 5 per cent of all consumption, and agriculture and industry – the main contributors to water scarcity - using the majority, policy makers should get smarter about water use, World Vision’s International Water Forum will be told. “Policy makers would be better off finding ways to get Australians to use recycled sewerage water in other ways like on their veggie garden, cars and in the laundry.
Or better still tackling agriculture and industry, which account for x per cent of water consumption,” presenter Professor Jennifer McKay, from the University of South Australia, will explain. “People will not easily buy the idea of recycled sewerage water for drinking,” says Professor McKay, who has studied water policy in Australia and overseas for 20years.But while Australians stall on the uses of recycled sewerage water, much of the developing world remains deprived of this precious commodity, the conference will hear. “A sixth of the population, mostly throughout Asia don’t have safe drinking water.
And 1.8 million people die annually from water-bourne diseases,” says Water aid Australia’s Peter Dwan. “As a rich country, with good sanitation, we should be leading the way on recycling and helping other countries achieve their basic human right to clean drinking water. ”Oxfam’s Jonathan Cornford will also be talking at the International Water Forum: defending ecosystems and resurrecting community rights.
The International Water Forum will be held at the
Adelaide Town Hall on Tuesday 1 August, 5.30pm.
It is a free event presented in conjunction with AusAID and supported by the
Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the University of South Australia.
Bookings can be made via the Hawke Centre:
www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au
or by calling 08 8302 0215.
A forum for students will be held before the event at 4-5pm.
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International Alert Series: The BIG Issues: Water Lessons presentation (PDF 3247.86KB)
Presented by Prof Jennifer McKay
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IWA Congress Platform Paper
Do Australian Water Institutional Governance Regimes Respond to Rural & Urban Customer Preferences?
Professor Jennifer McKay jennifer.mckay@unisa.edu.au
Dr. Anna Hurlimann hurac@unimelb.edu.au
and Dr. John Pisaniello john.pisaniello@unisa.edu.au
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School of Commerce 'External Scholars' seminar
Exploring Alternative Explanations for Institutional Structure and Change in Water Management
Presented by Sara Hughes, University of California, Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Fulbright Scholar, Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Law, School of Commerce
For further information, please visit our
website.
Date: Thursday, 31 May 2007
Venue: GK5-15, City West campus
Start Time: 3:30 PM
Finish Time: 5:00 PM
Other Information: No RSVP required. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be
provided.
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Australian Experience in Internal Negotiations & Consensus Building for Water Rights, Uses and Allocations - Lessons for Developing a Long Term Strategy for Iraq
Conference: The first conference on Iraqi vision
to water issues, the road to 2050: Iraqi Waters Amman, Jordan 15th to 17th
May 04-28 UNDP/ESCWA and UNESCO
Presenter: Professor Jennifer McKay, School of Commerce, University
of South Australia
Paper: Full Text
ENGLISH; Full Text
ARABIC
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International Water Law (Seminar Series)
In July 2007, ICE WaRM was pleased to host Professor Joseph Dellapenna from Villanova University, Pennsylvannia, who is widely regarded in the legal academy as a leading national (US) and international expert on water law. He visited Adelaide to work with the Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws at the University of South Australia.
