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Water Futures Seminar
: Research into the limitations of water law

Prof Paul Babie

Paul Babie is the Bonython Chair in Law and a Professor of Law. His talk will focus on the difficulties surrounding the laws used for management and allocation of water at the local, national and international levels.

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Water Futures Seminar
: Research into the limitations of water law]

Water Futures Seminar: Australasian hydroclimate 1000 to 2100AD: Paleo-reconstruction and climate change projection perspectives

Darren Ray

Darren Ray is a PhD candidate in the Dept of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology. His talk will present last 1000 year Australasian region paleo hydroclimate reconstructions as context for future drought as depicted in downscaled Australian climate change projections to 2100AD.  

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Water Futures Seminar: Managing toxins and making water “safe”: Consumer buffering practices in contexts of chemo-uncertainty.

Assoc Prof Georgina Drew

Presented by Associate Professor Georgina Drew from the School of Social Sciences.  When it comes to water quality, seeing is not believing; even clear-looking water can harbor nefarious elements that are harmful to health. To protect against water's hidden toxins, Indian consumers are adopting technologies designed to filter and mechanically 'heal' the waters they consume. In this talk, Georgina examines the use(s) of household water management technologies based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kochi, Kerala.

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