Lines on the Water

A blog exploring legal rights for rivers, environmental flows, and water governance around the world.

Friday, 21 April 2017

Legal rights for rivers and mountains - new article in Pursuit

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Will giving the Himalayas the same rights as people protect their future? Erin O'Donnell and Julia Talbot-Jones Himalayan glacie...
Friday, 24 March 2017

New article in The Conversation

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Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them The Whanganui River: now a legal person. Joer...
Monday, 5 December 2016

Urban water management: lessons from Melbourne's experience of drought

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Since the Millennium Drought of 2000-2010 (and particularly the devastatingly dry period of 2007-2010), Australians have significantly impro...

New article in The Conversation: speculation in Australia's water markets

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Australia's water markets continue to be recognised as world leaders in supporting rapid, flexible, enforceable and cheap transfers of w...
Tuesday, 2 August 2016

New article in The Conversation

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As the water resources debate in northern Australia continues to take shape, it is essential that we do not overlook the need to address the...
Thursday, 14 July 2016

Interview on Radio National's Counterpoint

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Developing northern Australia remains a topic of interest, especially following the recent federal election, which returned (just) a coaliti...

New article in The Conversation

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Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability Barry Hart , Monash University ; Avril Horne , University of Melbourn...
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Erin O'Donnell
Melbourne, Australia
This blog is a space to explore some of the exciting developments in legal rights for rivers, environmental water management, and the ways that environmental water managers are learning to use the opportunities created by water markets. Of course, markets are sometimes not a great fit for environmental values, and I'm just as interested in the potential constraints as the opportunities. You can find me on twitter @ezzyod

I've been working in water resource management since 2002, and I have a PhD in environmental water law and governance. If you want to read some of my more official work, you can find my thesis at the University of Melbourne Law School.

I've used my new book to create the word art I use in the banner, which brings together many of the themes I will be discussing here. Thanks to wordle.net for the great word art!
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