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http://dx.doi.org/10.21729/ksds.2020.13.4.1

Australia's Water Management Policies and Implications in Response to Climate Change  

Lee, Jong Wook (Hydrologic Applications, MDBA)
Park, Tae Sun (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements)
Lee, Seung Yeon (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Hongik University)
Lee, Seung Oh (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Hongik University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security / v.13, no.4, 2020 , pp. 1-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, as the extreme drought continued due to the reckless development and the dramatical climate change, national concern about the water management issues has been increased rapidly around the world, especially in Korea. Meanwhile, it is necessary to analyze and review the related cases in Australia, where they have developed the consistently, eco-friendly and systematically management from the national level, which is similar to that of Korea in difficult circumstances. Australia has been suffered by repeated droughts and floods due to low rainfall and dryness, and water disputes were begun with immigrant settlement in the 1890s. In the early days, water management agreements for efficient distribution of water resources, water use regulation programs, and federal water laws were enacted, and now the established water management system in which development and conservation are assumed to be well balanced. In Korea, however, in the past, the Ministry of Environment was responsible for water quality issues while the quantity was managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the main local departments for water management were divided. Therefore, it was difficult to manage the integrated water management due to problems such as duplicated works, excessive investments, and inefficiency. To resolve this situation, in 2018, all water management functions were unified, such as enacting the fundamental water-related laws, thereby laying the foundation for the integrated water management system for each basin. From 2019, even the integrated water management system was implemented, we are promoting the effect of sustainable water resource management. In order to establish a management policy for efficient and eco-friendly water management, the IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) of Australia, which has been devised in various ways, was analyzed and compared with the present situations and cases occurred in Korea, and the implications from this study would be suggested the future of IWRM in Korea.
Keywords
IWRM; Water management; Australia; Climate change;
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