Episode 181 (4 Feb 2010): This episode is from the archives, originally recorded in Brisbane. At the time, I summarized it thus: "I spoke to John Quiggin of the University of Queensland about water issues in Australia and Queensland. I learned that California and Australia are similar in many ways (dams, salinity, politics, paper water rights, ag trading, desalination, etc.)

I was quite surprised to hear that Brisbane’s dramatic drop in per capita use (to 130 liters/capita/day) was accomplished with regulations more than prices. (BUT, they — the water managers — did pay a lot of attention to metered water volumes.)

John blogs and tweets on on Aussie economics and politics at:

https://johnquiggin.com

https://twitter.com/JohnQuiggin