14 October 2006
Water Survey
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Our first ever water Audit is out, and as we've heard it's a grim prognosis.
The National Water Commission's findings have put much of the blame squarely at the feet of the States and Territories for underperforming in areas such as water resource planning and development, and river management.
And that report wasn't the only piece of bad tidings on the outlook for water, in fact the news coincided with the release of a metereologist report declaring that Australia is in the grip of its worst drought on record.
Those reports prompted, not surprisingly, a new round of Federal - State argy bargy about who's to blame, and while that was going on Peter Costello chimed in with the view that any new drought could cause a 'rural recession'.
But there was a little bit of good news amongst the doom and gloom, in fact findings from a survey which would seem to suggest that Australian's aren't as adverse to the idea of recycled water as first thought.
Guests
Dr June Marks
Research Fellow on the Department of Sociology at Flinders University.
Further Information
Story Researcher and Producer
Scott Wales
