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This concluding chapter compares the important features of the groundwater policy and management approaches that have been implemented in France and Australia and draws lessons that may be relevant to other countries who are implementing groundwater management regimes. To support the comparison, the chapter looks at six main stages of the policy development process: (1) political awareness raising; (2) increasing the groundwater knowledge base; (3) defining and allocating water use rights; (4) defining sustainability objectives and setting extraction limits; (5) returning over-allocated and overused ground-water systems to sustainable levels of extraction; and (6) enforcement policies.
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This is however not the case for mining activities which are surprisingly exempted from groundwater regulation in several Australian States despite having large extractions. However some controls may occur under mining legislation (Productivity Commission, 2018).
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The characteristic of the right as property is debatable (as a matter of law). For further see, e.g. ICM Agriculture Pty Ltd v Common-wealth [2009] HCA 51.
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In several States where different types of licenses coexists, WUR may not be granted in perpetuity (for instance, area-based licenses issued under the NSW Water Act of 1912).
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ABC. 2016. Moree shooting: Farmer Ian Turnbull jailed for 35 years for murdering environmental officer https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-23/moree-shooting-ian-turnbull-sentenced-over-murder/7535808
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Rinaudo, JD., Barnett, S., Holley, C. (2020). Changing from Unrestricted Access to Sustainable Abstraction Management Regimes: Lessons Learnt from France and Australia. In: Rinaudo, JD., Holley, C., Barnett, S., Montginoul, M. (eds) Sustainable Groundwater Management. Global Issues in Water Policy, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_27
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