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Slavery & Oppression - In The West and In India10 comments

Anuraag Sanghi wrote 2 months ago: The Moral Offensive In 1901, Dadabhai Naoroji published his famous research - “Poverty and Un … more »

Tags: Current Affairs, Feminist Issues, History

Bye Bye Allocations18 comments

pavlov wrote 4 months ago: Everyone has been working quite hard lately to get rid of allocations.  I’d like to call out … more »

Tags: Mozilla

October emergency: dry, hot Murray Darling: no irrigation water, maybe no town or stock water, either - crisis conditions extend, levels lower than 1957

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: Storages lowest since 1957: At September 30, the total volume of water stored in River Murray Syste … more »

Tags: NSW, Australia, sa, Agriculture, Policy, River Murray, Emergency, Drought, salinity

The Independent Member for Gippsland East, Craig Ingram, blames Vic nationals for plot to cut environmental flows to the Snowy River

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The Independent Member for Gippsland East, Craig Ingram, has written to the Federal Member for Gipps … more »

Tags: Drought, Environmental Flows

Increase for high security irrigators in the Murrumbidgee Valley as Snowy Jindabyne release arrives

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The Department of Water and Energy, on 2 October 2007 advised High security licence holders within t … more »

Tags: NSW, sa, River Murray, irrigation, Murray-Darling Basin, Town Water, South Australia, Water Week Vol 0413

Armageddon divvy-up for 2008-09: South East Australia emergency water plans

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The May Armageddon plan agreed by Ministers was now in full swing. The details of the plan appear in … more »

Tags: Policy, Environmental Flows, Emissions, Murray-Darling Basin

NSW, SA, Victoria towns and irrigators wait for Senior Officers October 2007 critical water plans

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: On 4 October Snowy Hydro reported that the NSW Department of Water and Energy was to “review” al … more »

Tags: Australia, Environmental Flows, Murray-Darling Basin, Policy, River Murray, Water Security, Water Week Vol 0413

Qld defers auction though experts question caps on water use in Murray-Darling basin: States free to continue over-allocating water licences despite commonwealth basin takeover

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: According to Greg Roberts in The Australian, (25/09/2007, p.4), water experts were questioning wheth … more »

Tags: QLD, Water Week Vol 0413

Sunwater changes rules: Paradise Dam, Queensland Bundaberg water users may top up with temporary transfer from Kolan

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: SunWater was now able to allow the Temporary Transfer of water from the Kolan Subscheme to the Burne … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Australia, Dams, QLD, regulation, Water Week Vol 0413

NSW Murrumbidgee Valley Water Report: 27 September 2007 shows Snowy flow-order saved the day

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The Snowy release to the Murrumbidgee Valley for 2007/2008 was currently less than half of the norma … more »

Tags: Drought, Hydro, irrigation, mdb, Murray-Darling Basin, NSW, Town Water, Water Week Vol 0413

Murrumbidgee towns may now ease water restrictions from Level 4 to Level 3a but emergency conditions remain:Water Sharing Plan still disabled

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The NSW Department of Water and Energy, September 2007 Murrumbidgee High and General Security licenc … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Drought, Emergency, irrigation, mdb, Murray-Darling Basin, NSW, Policy, Water Week Vol 0413

Flow to South Australia slow: September 2007, Lowest flows since 1968, downstream of Euston Weir, and no flow at all from from Kiewa and Ovens

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The pattern of flows to South Australia over the remainder of the season will be critical in managin … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Australia, Drought, Emergency, mdb, Murray-Darling Basin, NSW, River Murray, sa

Emergency conditions: NSW withholds river-flow to southern states; had it not, it “would not have had any water for any purpose at the start of the season”

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The NSW Department of Water and Energy said things were bad, very bad and only “critical water” … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Australia, Drought, Emergency, Murray-Darling Basin, Policy, River Murray, Town Water, Water Week Vol 0413

Murray Valley Water Report: September 2007- historical low, catastrophic dry feared for 2008/2009

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: Water availability to users in the Murray Valley continues to deteriorate - it has now reached an hi … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Australia, Drought, Emergency, Murray-Darling Basin, Water Week Vol 0413

September 2007: All water held in accounts may be traded in NSW Hunter Valley

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: NSW Department of Water and Energy, September 2007 said all water held in accounts may be traded, in … more »

Tags: Australia, coal mines, Energy, Mining, NSW, Plantation forestry, Water Week Vol 0413

New policy-plan: NSW towns to purchase water on the open market in deal to go level 4 to level 3a, others must plan to truck water, open channels banned

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The NSW Department of Water and Energy, said sufficient water will be provided to all towns to meet … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Australia, Drought, Emergency, evaporation, irrigation, Murray-Darling Basin, New Ideas, NSW

Queensland offers Darling-tributary, Condamine River irrigators 163 megalitres allocation from Sandy Creek, to Cecil Plains, when river is a dust-pile

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: According to Brad Pfeffer, in a report to Queensland Country Life, 27/9/2007, p. 9, “last week … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Drought, Murray-Darling Basin, Policy, Price, QLD

Qld opens sale of coal-zone; Surat, Surat-East acquifer allocations calls for registrations of interest for general reserve unallocated ground water

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water calls for registrations of interest for gen … more »

Tags: Aquifer, coal mines, Policy, Water Week Vol 0413

People suspicious of yet another expensive plan to solve intractable water issues: get back to basics, argues MP

waterweek wrote 7 months ago: Billions of dollars had been wasted in failing to solve the basic issues in water allocation said In … more »

Tags: Water Week Vol 0413


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