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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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