Lost Waters

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Lost Waters Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Melbourne University Press
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Pages: 272 Language: English ISBN: 9780522853513 Categories: , ,

Lost Waters charts the history of waterscape change for a Moorabool River catchment near Ballarat in the central highlands of western Victoria since white settlement. It is a water supply catchment area where water has been gathered and channelled, waterways reconfigured and connections with local community weakened. In bringing a historical rather than scientific perspective to the issues of water allocation and river management, Erica Nathan considers how people experienced the ‘settlement’ of water. She questions the central volumetric value that water is given in contemporary debates by discovering a lost geography of water in the knowledge and memory of petitions, water races, picnics, frontage disputes, forest settlements, swimming holes, hidden waterfalls and ti-treed springs. “”Lost Waters”” is a history of one rural waterscape, but with implications that extend to our wider understanding of how water resource conflict is framed and how our waterways are managed. It shows that water has been distilled from its past to produce a resource removed from history and landscapes disconnected from community.

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Author Biography

Erica Nathan has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Applied Science from the University of Ballarat. She has a long-standing interest in horticultural and environmental issues and is an ongoing committee member of the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CCMA). She has worked as a teacher in secondary schools and TAFE colleges, a research consultant on environmental matters and a land management planner. Her publications include 'Giving Salt some History and History some Salt', Australian Historical Studies (Oct. 2000) and 'Salinity on the Southeastern Dundas Tableland, Victoria', Australian Journal of Earth Science (2000).