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		<title>Murray-Darling Authority Hosts Regional Planning Forum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poh-Ling Tan and John Mackenzie from the Water Planning Tools project gave a presentation to the planning staff of the Murray Darling Basin Authority on 27th November, 2008. The presentation was the keynote address as part of a forum on regional planning hosted by the Authority to gather insights and learnings for the development of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=310&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final report from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project has now been released by the Australian Government. The project is the most detailed study of water availability in the Murray Darling Basin, and was the biggest research contract at $11 million ever undertaken by the CSIRO. The key findings from the report are: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=308&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Water Trading Simulation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CSIRO economists have developed the Australian Knowledge Exchange (AKX) – an online prediction market which aims to forecast water availability. The AKX has been set up by CSIRO to test whether trading knowledge online can work for water management and decision-making. The AKX is effectively a prediction market which aims to forecast future events. Traders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=305&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Water Initiative</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indigenous Water Initiative is a program of the Centre for Respect of Life and Environment which seeks to promote understanding and articulation of indigenous perspectives on water and development. The initiative grew out of the World Water Forum in Kyoto in March 2003, based on a series of sessions organised by CRLE on Indigenous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=302&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Tape Preventing Sustainable Water Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released by the University of New England (UNE) has found government bureaucracy is preventing improvements in the use of water in Australia. The inter-governmental National Water Initiative was created in 2004 to provide a simplified approach to water management. But UNE researchers have found too much red tape is stifling sustainable water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=295&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiwi Island Water Allocation Plan Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Distilled, October 2008   The Tiwi Islands Water Allocation Plan, one of the three trial locations for the pilots undertaken for the Water Planning Tools Project, has been significantly enhanced with the announcement of Australian Government funding from the Raising National Water Standards Program to the Northern Territory Government to employ an Indigenous water planner for two years. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=283&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen Free Online Collaborative Tools</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Six Revisions Weblog recently published an article reviewing 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration which, although geared towards project management, could easily be applied to planning activities. The tools cover a range of applications from basic whiteboarding, mind-mapping, participatory editing, brainstorming and remote conferencing tools, right through to  fully-featured project management applications. See the article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=279&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Planning Remains A Major Issue Amongst Voters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Newspoll report, released on the 29th October, confirms the importance of water planning in the Australian political landscape. The survey findings indicate that although its importance to voters has declined slightly in the context of the global financial crisis, water planning remains the 4th most important issue for Australian voters. The quarterly survey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=274&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Assessments for Tropical Rivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecological risk assessments for Australia&#8217;s Northern Tropical Rivers Sub project 2 of Australia&#8217;s Tropical Rivers &#8211; an integrated data assessment and analysis Authors: R Bartolo, P Bayliss and R van Dam Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist, 2008 Download the report Summary: Australia’s tropical river systems are unique and form one of the last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=263&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designer Carrots: The National Market-Based Instruments Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Mackenzie from the Collaborative Water Planning Project delivered a presentation at the Designer Carrots: National Market-Based Instruments Forum on the role of social research in the development and delivery of market-based approaches to resource management. John’s presentation highlighted the importance of understanding social drivers, values and aspirations as the basis for enhancing participation in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterplanning.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4536705&amp;post=258&amp;subd=waterplanning&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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