Water governance regimes in Australia : implementing the National Water Initiative
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2007
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McKay, J.M.
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Water, 2007; 34(1):150-156
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Governance is the process of decision making in the community involving both formal and informal actors at all levels. Government is just one of the formal act in governance. The institutions and organisations it creates by laws and regulations are the formal actors in the process of extracting, distributing and using water. There are of course many informal institutions as well such as customs of the society with respect to water use and allocation and in relation to enforcement the law. After the Council of Australian Government reforms in 1994 there are many laws creating many types of organisations to extract, distribute and use water in each State. This paper reports on work to examine the formal legal process The work established that there are now different types of corporate organisation supplying water in Australia. These formal organisations and the informal institution have different responses to the formal water law and policy changes. The responses of the formal organisations and informal institutions are instrumental to the success of the new water law and policy reforms under the National Water Initiative. The paper reports on some results from a telephone interview with 183 of the Chief Executive Officers of the largest water supply businesses. The results presented here look at their responses to the new water policies in particular evaluating the effort put into ESD by the CEOs, the difficulty in pleasing the regulators(both environment and price), the amount of information they have about water policy and whether they trust the State government.
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