Chapter 3
I Background
II Early European Settlements
III Assessment Of Available Water Resources
IV Water Supplies For Goldmining Development
V Irrigation Development
VI Farm And Stock Water Supplies
VII Urban Water Supplies
VIII Wastewater Management And Treatment
IX Water Quality Management
X Limnological And Water Quality Research
XI New Techniques In Water Resource Planning And Management
XII Legislation
XIII Conclusion
XIV List Of Abbreviations
XV Acknowledgements
XVI Plantations-high Productivity Resources
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The lesson to be learnt from this brief statement about some of the major water legislation in Australia is the advantage to water users of having clear and binding institutional arrangements for the development and use of this resource where several governments are involved and the resource is limited. The absence of such arrangements would have led to serious over-utilization of resources and did lead to major water quality problems prior to recent amendment of the River Murray Agreement. The institutional arrangements should include measures to reach agreement at the technical, operational, management and political levels. The most effective technological knowledge can be applied only within such a framework.
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