Australia needs new national water reform agenda
A meeting of 50 of Australia’s most senior water scientists and policy-makers has called for a refreshed national water reform agenda by 2014.
They noted that Australia’s current water research efforts were hugely fragmented which highlighted the need for a sustainable national water science strategy.
They also agreed that interdependencies between water, energy, climate change, population and agriculture currently “cry out” for intensified research and thinking about dealing with the complexity of otherwise intractable or perverse problems.
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