TY  - JOUR
TI  - Benchmarking Indigenous water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin: a crucial step towards developing water rights targets for Australia
AU  - Hartwig, Lana D
AU  - Markham, Francis
AU  - Jackson, Sue
T2  - Australasian Journal of Water Resources
AB  - Australia’s ability to address Indigenous claims for water rights and to advance both national Indigenous and water policy is hampered by a lack of information on Indigenous water entitlements and the communities that hold them. This paper contributes to the policy agenda of increasing Indigenous water rights by developing a method that quantifies and enables spatially explicit comparison of Indigenous-held water within and across Murray-Darling Basin jurisdictions. We construct baselines for (i) Indigenous population (ii) Indigenous holdings of surface water entitlements, and (iii) Indigenous holdings of groundwater entitlements across water management units in the Basin. We estimate that Indigenous surface water holdings constitute no more than 0.17% of the equivalent permitted take across the entire Basin. Groundwater entitlements held by Indigenous entities constitute 0.02% of all available groundwater. The approximate market value of these water entitlements is A\19.2 million in 2015–16 terms, which equates to 0.12% of the total \16.5 billion market value. In contrast, 5.3% of the Murray-Darling Basin population is Indigenous, a proportion that is rapidly increasing. The production of estimates of this type, and Indigenous control of the data needed to generate them, are first steps in a reparations process that can contribute towards Indigenous water justice.
DA  - 2021/07/03/
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.1080/13241583.2021.1970094
DP  - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 98
EP  - 110
SN  - 1324-1583
ST  - Benchmarking Indigenous water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1970094
Y2  - 2023/05/09/01:27:18
KW  - Urban planning
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia
AU  - Hartwig, Lana D.
AU  - Jackson, Sue
AU  - Markham, Francis
AU  - Osborne, Natalie
T2  - International Journal of Water Resources Development
DA  - 2021///
PY  - 2021
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1868980
VL  - 38
IS  - 1
SP  - 30
EP  - 63
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07900627.2020.1868980
KW  - Urban planning
ER  -