Water management beyond the fortressed COVID-19 world: considerations for the long-term

Abstract

Water management beyond the fortressed COVID-19 world: considerations for the long-term 2020 has been a year many of us may prefer not to remember. For a large but sparsely populated region, Australasia has so far been partially spared the levels of direct human devastation from COVID-19 due to our ability to close our island borders and severely restrict and monitor incoming arrivals. This of course takes other tolls on families unable to reunite, joblessness, mental health, human disconnection and unavailability of some vital supplies and services. Locked-down and locked-in to such challenging and ongoing or reoccurring spirals makes it difficult to rise above the current challenging state of affairs to imagine new alternative futures.