Australian Water Law

Australian Water Law

By Kate Stoeckel, Romany Webb, Luke Woodward, Amy Hankinson

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$261.00 RRP

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Code: 9780455228679

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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...

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

Introduction to water resources development, management and law
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

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