Australian Water Law
Book $261.00 RRP |
Date: Code: 9780455228679 Lawbook Co., AUSTRALIA |
Australian Water Law
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Description
Australian Water Law offers practical and up-to-date guidance on the critical issues of ownership, control and use of water as a resource.
A complex web of state and federal legislation seeks to manage and protect water and water rights, which are also interwoven with property law and environmental law. This presents considerable challenges for practitioners who are advising on matters like access rights, statutory water entitlements, water planning and resource protection.
Commercially, water law affects a range of infrastructure development and management projects, while a national water market offers opportunities to trade water rights, and risks and controls.
Kate Stoeckel, Romany Webb and Luke Woodward apply their considerable legal experience in matters involving water rights as well as regulation of the water and sewerage industry and Amy Hankinson offers her significant expertise in environmental law and water management.
The result is a fresh, practical and authoritative examination of legal issues relating to water. .
Legal, regulatory, policy and technical issues are considered, including:
- the constitutional/institutional framework for managing water resources,
- solving practical...
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Editorial Reviews
From: Ethos, March 2012 - Issue 223
Reviewed by Brendan Jones, Moray & Agnew
As water has become an increasingly precious resource in Australia the legislature has intervened to ensure it is properly managed. Indicative of that, Australia’s water law is almost entirely statue based whereas historically, it was governed purely by the common law inherited from England.
Table of Contents
Evolution of Water Rights
Water Planning and Management
Rights to access and use water
Water markets - Dealing and trading in water rights
Community water and sewerage infrastructure and services
Access and competition
Environmental water and protection
Water quality
Resource Downloads
Product Reviews
- Ethos, March 2012 - Issue 223 [PDF 481690]
- Law Institute Journal, May 2012 [PDF 2113550]
- Law Society Journal, April 2012 vol 50 No.3 [PDF 765710]
- Media Monitors, 1 April 2012 [PDF 256190]
- The Law Society of Tasmania, April 2012 [PDF 70850]