Quick Blogging. For water enthusiasts, there’s a free ebook from ANU Press titled Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia’s Cities. Click on the snippet below to download.

Here’s the abstract:

Must we build more dams and desalination plants, or should we be managing the demand for urban water more prudently? This book explores the demand for urban water and how it has changed in response to shifting social mores over the past century. It explains how demand for centralised provision of water might be reshaped to enable the cities to better cope with expected changes in supply as our climate changes. And it discusses the implications of property rights in water for proposals to privatise water services.