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Book release Picturing Fresh Water Justice in Rural Australia

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http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/PicturingFreshwaterJustice/

I encouraged the authors to publish this book to broaden the current debate in this country over water rights and the competing uses for this critical resource. A key output of Cooperative Research Centres is peer reviewed research publications. The pictures and captions contained in this book were collected as data for research but deserved a much broader audience. The cliché A picture is worth a thousand words correctly applies because our aim is to bring you a rich expression of local people’s ideas and emotions through the photos they have taken and the words they have penned.

This need came home to me forcibly when some of the material was displayed by Jennifer McKay at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and I attended the opening of this ‘artistic’ display. The audience included many people who had no connection with agriculture and whose perception of irrigators was based on the popular media and urban myths. However the pictures enabled this audience to develop a richer perspective of our irrigation regions. It fired people’s curiosity and led me into some great conversations on a variety of water issues.

My hope is that through this book the images will continue to get people thinking about our irrigation regions in new and more productive ways. The additional content from a range of other perspectives, including researchers and members of the legal fraternity, add to the publication's depth.

The book will be available from the IAL/CRC IF stand after Tuesday's presentation by Ganesh Keremane and Jennifer McKay.

Best,
Ian Atkinson
Chief Executive Officer
CRC for Irrigation Futures

Contacts:
Mr Ian Atkinson