TY  - BOOK
AU  - Troy, Patrick
AB  - Australian cities have traditionally relied for their water on a ‘predict-and-provide’ philosophy that gives primacy to big engineering solutions. In more recent years privatised water authorities, seeking to maximise consumption and profits, have reinforced the emphasis on increasing supply. Now the cities must cope with the stresses these policies have imposed on the eco-systems from which they harvest water, into which they discharge wastes, and on which they are located. Residents are having to pay more for their water, while the cities themselves are becoming less sustainable. Must we build more dams and desalination plants, or should we be managing the demand for urban water more prudently? This book explores the demand for urban water and how it has changed in response to shifting social mores over the past century. It explains how demand for centralised provision of water might be reshaped to enable the cities to better cope with expected changes in supply as our climate changes. And it discusses the implications of property rights in water for proposals to privatise water services.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459762
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459762
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 234317561
KW  - australia
KW  - climate changes
KW  - water
KW  - environment
KW  - Drinking water
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Sewage
KW  - Sewerage
KW  - Sydney
KW  - Third-party access
KW  - Wastewater
KW  - Water supply
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b0e41eb8-485e-426f-8440-f2eaa88325e9/459762.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33597
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2008
TI  - Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia's Citiesnull
ER  - 
