Changing from Unrestricted Access to Sustainable Abstraction Management Regimes: Lessons Learnt from France and Australia

Jean-Daniel Rinaudo (1) , Steve Barnett (2) , Cameron Holley (3)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 Government of South Australia
3 UNSW - University of New South Wales [Sydney]

This concluding chapter compares the important features of the groundwater policy and management approaches that have been implemented in France and Aus-tralia and draws lessons that may be relevant to other countries who are implementing groundwater management regimes. To support the comparison, the chapter looks at six main stages of the policy development process: 1) political awareness raising; 2) increasing the groundwater knowledge base; 3) defining and allocating water use rights; 4) defining sustainability objectives and setting extraction limits; 5) returning over allocated and overused groundwater systems to sustainable levels of extraction; and 6) enforcement policies.

Mots clés: political awareness raising; groundwater knowledge base; water use rights; allocation; extraction limts; enforcement

Domaines: Economies et finances; Environnement et Société

Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Steve Barnett, Cameron Holley. Changing from Unrestricted Access to Sustainable Abstraction Management Regimes: Lessons Learnt from France and Australia. Sustainable groundwater management: a comparative analysis of French and Australian policies and implications to other countries, pp.537-562, 2020, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-32766-8_27⟩. ⟨hal-02532185⟩