Australia: Divvying Up the Water Down Under

New York Times: In 2007, the Murray-Darling basin, Australia`s heartland of irrigated agriculture, was mired in a deep drought. Water marketing helped keep permanent crops like nut trees and grapes alive. Andrew Gregson, an official with the New South Wales Irrigators Council, is the kind of Australian completely at home in the agricultural sea that is California`s San Joaquin Valley. He knows all about the business and the social fabric of farming and about irrigated agriculture. He believes that modern regulators......

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