Title Dead in the water : a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin / Richard Beasley

Published Crows Nest NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Also by the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Glossary of terms -- Map -- Confessions and other 'C' words -- Chapter 1: A short history of water in Australia -- Chapter 2: The Water Act 2007 ... (John) Howard's end -- Chapter 3: The great book burning -- Chapter 4: The great legal 'error' -- Chapter 5: That's not an environmentally sustainable level of take ... just ask the CSIRO -- Chapter 6: The great 'postcode fix' -- Chapter 7: 'The best available heavily censored science' -- Chapter 8: 'How good is climate change denial?' Chapter 9: 'Fake news' and the efficiency 'rort' -- Chapter 10: The Coorong ... 'I get zero gigalitres with a little help from my friends'? -- Chapter 11: The Basin Plan's 'confidence trick' -- Chapter 12: Water rustlers, floodplain harvesting and other theft -- Chapter 13: A very brief note on 'uncooperative federalism' -- Chapter 14: My Basin Plan -- Acknowledgements -- Notes Summary Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 19, 2021) Subject Water resources development -- Government policy -- Australia -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) Water resources development -- Government policy -- Australia -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.) Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) Water-supply -- Government policy -- Australia -- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) Water-supply -- Government policy -- Australia -- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) Water resources development -- Environmental aspects Water resources development -- Government policy Water-supply -- Government policy SUBJECT Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002105 Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002000111 Subject Australia -- Darling River Watershed Australia -- Murray River Australia -- Murray River Watershed Form Electronic book ISBN 1761061062 9781761061066

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