Sydney Morning Herald: DISPUTES about the nation’s dwindling water supplies loom as the next great legal battleground, according to the country’s most senior judge, Murray Gleeson. In an interview with the Herald just months before his retirement, the Chief Justice of the High Court said attempts by governments to divide water rights among states, businesses and individuals would inevitably spill into the courts. "There will be increasing regulation of a scarce resource," he said. "If …