Water and Australian cities: review of urban water reform, 2006

Abstract

Australia is experiencing water supply problems and this Report reviews and comments on urban water use and the responses by urban water providers to the challenges of water reform. The objectives of the National Water Initiative are accepted as the basis for progress. Analyses and comments use this baseline, or if it is more appropriate to do so, the antecedent to the National Water Initiative, the 1994 national water reform framework. The main objective of the Report is to point to several areas deserving greater policy attention and policy issues around the scope of the National Water initiative, urban water reform, prices, revenues and dividends, water recycling and the future of water use is considered in detail