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Title:
Storage rights and water allocation arrangements in the Murray-Darling Basin
Series:
Technical Reports
Series Issue:
2013.07
Publication Date:
12/12/2013
Description:
The ability to carry water over between years can increase the efficiency of water use if the rules governing water storage and water allocations are well defined. This report examines water right accounting rules in the Murray-Darling Basin, specifically rules around water storage (also known as carryover) and water allocation decisions. These rules vary significantly across and within jurisdictions, and have important implications for water users, particularly irrigators. A key finding of this report is that it may be possible to increase the efficiency of water use over time by making relatively minor changes to the centralised annual allocation systems that operate in southern NSW and northern Victoria. These include: * increasing the frequency of water use accounting * setting aggregate allocation account limits to more accurately reflect water storage constraints These two adjustments have the potential to significantly reduce the risk of individual water user's carryover decisions leading to dam spills that adversely affect other water users. They can also be achieved without significantly altering the water property rights systems that currently operate in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
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Publisher:
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
HUGHES Neal

GIBBS Cheryl

DAHL Astrid

TREGEAGLE Daniel

SANDERS Orion
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms

Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Hughes, N, Gibbs, C, Dahl, A, Tregeagle, D & Sanders, O 2013, Storage rights and water allocation arrangements in the Murray–Darling Basin, ABARES technical report, Canberra, December. CC BY 3.0
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ISSN 189-3128
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