Notable essay:

Malcolm Turnbull, MP (Paliment of Australia, personal website).
"My five", The Austrlian, 01 November 2006.

Reviews several books on water resources, most focus on Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin but also includes some on America. The books reviewed are:

Australia's Water Resources: From Use to Management.
John Pigram, CSIRO Publishing, 2006.

When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When the Water Runs Out?.
Fred Pearce, Doubleday, 2006.

Rivers as Ecological Systems: The Murray-Darling Basin.
W.J. Young (ed), Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2001.

Talking Water: An Australian Guidebook for the 21st Century.
Farmhand Foundation, 2004, www.farmhand.org.au.

Water and Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin
Daniel Connell, Federation Press (February, 2007).

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water.
Mark Reisner, Penguin, 1993.