Senior fellows program Australia Nov06-March 07

1. Groundwater governance regimes in Australia - how to achieve multiple objectives in complex socio ecological systems-lessons for India and PakistanProfessor Jennifer McKay Senior fellows program Australia Nov06-March 07

2. PREPARED BY: Writing and Summary workshop 27-30 March 2007, New Delhi Groundwater governance in Asia in theory and practice-training and research program. SPONSORED BY: IWMI, Groundwater governance in Asia, CGIAR Challenge Program on Water ,Food and Environment. Groundwater governance in South Australia

3. Dr Villholth, Dr B Sharma, Mark Gordiano, Dr Sabatier. University of SA especially Adam Gray, Ganesh Keremane and Prof Atique Islam DLWBC John Bourne, Steve Barnett and Dr John Radcliffe SA NWI COMMISSIONER, National Groundwater School SA Senior fellows Dr Dutta and Professors Sudan and Lashari. RV Rama Mohan and Aamir Nazear Acknowledgements

4. Best practice scheme has these elements 1 conjunctive with surface water, 2 has a licensing systems for users through State or Crown ownership or another mechanism, 3 sets SAFE YIELD and regulates allocation and use Groundwater management

5. They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. English folk poem, circa 1764 Commons poem

6. 1. Australian methods to achieve Best Practice model as above details about Share of Consumptive pool allocation and use model being implemented in all States in next 3 years. Background on area conversion and volumetric approaches. Golden opportunity for Senior fellows to monitor this roll out and the social problems. Learn form our mistakes. Plan of this talk

7. 2. Lessons for India 3. Lessons for Pakistan 4. Dr Peck and I have a proposal for a legal aspects senior fellows program 5. Support for Dr Dutta to pursue the Groundwater data infrastructure plan 6. Dr Sudan to set up NGO and 7. Dr Lashari to work on volumetric conversion Plan of this talk cont…

8. Surface and groundwater irrigation

9. Great Artesian basin

10. Declarations of drought

11. The issue for all water management is how to create sustainable socio- ecological systems. the dimensions of these systems vary in place and time as we have heard from the junior fellows and the Senior fellows from this program. Complex socio-ecological systems

12. Framework

13. Equivalent of Persian wheels Dethridge wheels

14. Solar powered flume gates, NSW Modern total channel control

15. Modern total channel control

16. State has power and replaced the common law riparian rule and groundwater ownership rule( land owner owns water and can use all he likes) with licensing system soon as agriculture provoked conflict Commonwealth through funding has EXERTED of influence ie CoAG in 1994 and NWI in 2004. NWI has 80 objectives one of these is Consumptive share approach to replace area irrigation allowances and volumetric allocation. Water law in Australia

17. OWNERSHIP OF WATER Australia moved from riparian system to licensing system area based to volumetric to now % of consumptive pool. over use and over allocation a problem especially under riparian greed but under licensing system as poor hydrological info Land and water nexus

18. land and water not tied together anymore since 1994 which has created flexibility and retirement of some land from irrigation. Facilitated water markets and revisions of water allocation amounts objective is to achieve ESD use so environmental allocations worked out first and the remaining water is the consumptive pool. Land and water ownership

19. Institutions, organisations and laws

20. New concept under NWI but foreshadowed in 1994 reforms Share of consumptive pool

21. This will reduce water use as growers will only get a % of the permissible annual volume PAV allowed from a GW or SW source. PAV set by State Governments and part of water plan. The amount of water is not fixed as before but will vary annually. Share of consumptive pool

22. Ground water used instead of surface

23. A common lexicon for water terms in the State acts. more data sharing and common platforms between the States. Other aspects of NWI

24. The Labour in Carrying Water

25. Australia India and Pakistan GW

26. Australia, India Pakistan GW

27. Australia, India and Pakistan GW

28. Australia, India Pakistan GW

29. Need an allocation system for water separate from land. Need to encourage more Group sharing of GW wells. Need to get the data to work out the PAV and educate growers about the need to preserve the resource ie safe yield Lessons

30. need to separate land and water but be careful to regulate water monopolists through law need to get the States and Provinces to have uniform laws need to have external dispute resolution means see Halanaik and Mckay on Meshana. Lessons

31. Thank you for the opportunity to work with the fellows and IWMI persons and Prof Peck. There will be long term impacts of the Program and it will be important to keep in touch Prof Sudan has a mechanism for this. Thank you

32. IWMI and CGIAR Summary workshop Groundwater Governance in Asia 30 March 2007