“CORPORATE water grabs” must be forestalled as the climate changes, according to academic Dr Ariel Salleh.
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Dr Salleh will be the guest speaker at the Bathurst Community Climate Action Network (BCCAN) annual general meeting at Rahamim at 6pm on Tuesday, October 16.
Dr Salleh, who is honorary associate professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, said it was “time to set the climate question in a wider political frame by understanding how it is connected with water”.
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“In fact, climate change cannot be rolled back without restoring our local and global water cycles,” she said.
“This means that as the international economy staggers from peak oil to peak water, it is critical to forestall corporate water grabs, let alone international resource wars.”
BCCAN president Tracy Sorensen said Dr Salleh’s presentation was highly topical “given recent developments relating to water allocations from the Murray-Darling and, closer to home, the continued search by the Regis gold mine for water for its operations in the Kings Plains region”.
Regis put a proposal to Bathurst Regional Council in 2015 to buy between eight and 10 megalitres of treated effluent a day from the Waste Water Treatment Works, but the arrangement did not go ahead.
BCCAN says the public is welcome to attend Dr Salleh’s talk at Rahamim in Busby Street.