SALES PITCH

* Desal and water reuse are not the only ways that people are dealing with the growing challenge of water scarcity.

Water rights trading also seems to be picking up. In Australia, the government has announced a new AUD400 million funding programme to buy water rights in Queensland (see story p29), while in California, the Department of Water Resources has said that it will introduce a drought water bank in 2009 – the first time it has done so since 1994. This ...

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