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October emergency: dry, hot Murray Darling: no irrigation water, maybe no town or stock water, either - crisis conditions extend, levels lower than 1957
Storages lowest since 1957: At September 30, the total volume of water stored in River Murray System storages was 2130 GL (23 per cent ), which is the lowest for this time of year since 1957, before … more »
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Slavery & Oppression - In The West and In India
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Anuraag Sanghi wrote 2 months ago: The Moral Offensive In 1901, Dadabhai Naoroji published his famous research - “Poverty and Un … more »
Bye Bye Allocations
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pavlov wrote 4 months ago: Everyone has been working quite hard lately to get rid of allocations. I’d like to call out … more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
