caa a22 4500 463194691 CHVBK 20180406164919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9009-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9009-8 Donnellan Anthony P.O. Box 484, 2033, Kensington, NSW, Australia aut Is the National Water Commission an appropriate institutional and governance structure to address the fundamental requirements of the water and irrigation industry in Australia? [Elektronische Daten] [Anthony Donnellan] The National Water Commission (NWC) and the $2 billion Australian Government Water Fund (the fund) has drawn attention to the need for innovative and adaptive practices for water use. The NWC and the fund, whilst a critical and catalytic step in the recognition of the current water situation in Australia, has thus far neglected to consider the systemic failures of the water, irrigation and related industries that led to this point. The underlying issue of the efficient allocation of water resources can be resolved by the harmonisation of competing demands (economic, social and environmental) and the establishment of governance structures to reduce institutional impediments. The linking of the fund to National Competition Council (NCC) payments is an important consideration in this process. This paper will argue that governance reform and institutional (re)alignment to remedy the impediments to the efficient allocation of water resources needs to be embedded in and linked to national competition policy principles. This paper will consider the NWC in this context with the aim of informing future policy to consider the systemic failures of the water industry and to forge institutional change for the more effective allocation of water. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Australia nationallicence Competition nationallicence Governance nationallicence Institutional nationallicence National Water Commission nationallicence Policy nationallicence Programme nationallicence The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 13-23 0251-1088 27:1<13 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9009-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9009-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Donnellan Anthony P.O. Box 484, 2033, Kensington, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 13-23 0251-1088 27:1<13 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer