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Like many Australians, I looked on with horror as images of a million dead fish swamped the media and consumed the news cycle. I resolved to dig deeper. The Murray-Darling Basin is under threat. This vast and spectacular geographical region, covering one million square kilometres from central Queensland to South Australia, has been exploited for nearly 200 years. Soil erosion, sand drifts, dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, threatened native flora and fauna, the drying out of internationally recognised wetlands and steadily worsening droughts have repeatedly brought large parts of the Basin to its knees. In Wounded Country, award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates the complex history of Australia's largest and most important river system. Waves of farmers exploited the region's potential, with little consideration for the environmental consequences. Dispossession and marginalisation denied local First Nations people their lands and European settlers the Indigenous cultural knowledge to manage the Basin sustainably. Instead, we've had 'nation-building' irrigation schemes and agricultural enterprises promoted by politicians focused on short-term profits and a development-at-all-costs approach. Expert advice and warnings about long-term environmental effects have been continually sidelined. We're now at a point of reckoning. How can we save the once mighty Murray-Darling? --

Rivers --- Water-supply --- Environmental aspects --- Political aspects --- History. --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Environmental conditions.

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"Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world's driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods."--Publisher's website.

Aboriginal Australians --- Art, Aboriginal Australian --- Indigenous peoples --- Social conditions --- Ecology --- Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.) --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Environmental conditions.

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Richard Beasley is fed up. He's fed up with vested interests killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's fed up with the cowardice and negligence that has allowed Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can sustain both the environment and the communities that depend on it. He's fed up that a noble plan to save Murray-Darling Basin based on the 'best scientific knowledge' has instead been corroded by lies, the denial of climate change, pseudoscience and political expediency. He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry. Dead in the Water is political satire of the highest order . . . if weren't all so tragically true.

Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Government policy --- Government policy. --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)

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Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Atlases & Maps --- Management. --- Environmental impact analysis. --- Environmental management. --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Analysis of environmental impact --- Environmental assessment --- Environmental impact assessment --- Environmental impact evaluation --- Impact analysis, Environmental --- Administration --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) --- Darling River Basin (Qld. and N.S.W.) --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental monitoring --- Environmental protection --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.). --- Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.).