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Turnbull plays different tunes on Chaffey upgrade grant issue – calls fed grant for Chaffey upgrade ‘contingent’ in parliament but changes tune to ‘all clear’ after angry response from local electorate
According to Lenore Taylor, in The Australian Financial Review, (26/09/2007, p.11), the federal government appeared to be saying one thing in Canberra about its tough stance on protecting the Murray … more »
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Mardi van der Wielen - Environmental Flows in the Eastern MLR
litfuse wrote 7 months ago: The podcast of Mardi van der Wielen’s (SAMDB NRM Board) presentation on “Identify ecolog … more »
River Murray still good for Houseboats
litfuse wrote 8 months ago: Podcast of interview of Peter Tucker from the Houseboat Hirers Association from Lit Fuse - November … more »
Turnbull plays different tunes on Chaffey upgrade grant issue – calls fed grant for Chaffey upgrade ‘contingent’ in parliament but changes tune to ‘all clear’ after angry response from local electorate
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: According to Lenore Taylor, in The Australian Financial Review, (26/09/2007, p.11), the federal gov … more »
Rising sea levels in Asia poses big future-challenge for Aus: mass migration of enviro refugees
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: Rising sea levels posed far wider challenges to regional security than the survival of small isla … more »
NSW state government needs to reject Korean Coal's longwall coalmining proposal, which could destroy water table in Wyong River area, says Federal MP
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: Issues affecting the area of Dobell on the Central Coast related to the failure of state Labor go … more »
The Independent Member for Gippsland East, Craig Ingram, blames Vic nationals for plot to cut environmental flows to the Snowy River
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: The Independent Member for Gippsland East, Craig Ingram, has written to the Federal Member for Gipps … more »
1000 Melbourne trees die of thirst during last three years; tree expert calls for Melbourne-wide "adopt-a-tree" scheme to supply it with grey water, amidst growing public concern
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: According to Rachel Kleinman and Andra Jackson, in The Age, (25/09/2007, p.5), tree expert Dr Greg M … more »
Armageddon divvy-up for 2008-09: South East Australia emergency water plans
waterweek wrote 9 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 9 months ago: On 4 October Snowy Hydro reported that the NSW Department of Water and Energy was to “review” al … more »
4 October 2007: Emergency action: NSW Department of Water and Energy to “review” all NSW dam releases
waterweek wrote 9 months ago: It appeared the NSW Department of Water and Energy had frozen all dam releases. This was believed to … more »
Armageddon mode: South Australia stops River Murray water flow into Lake Bonney, as moves to disconnect 27 wetlands, to secure downstream flow
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: According to townspeople in Barmera, the State Government’s stoppage of River Murray water flow in … more »
Murray Darling Armageddon: Ministers agree to drain and block 44 wetlands and build a new weir at Wellington
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: Like the Mayan collapse, it appeared the Murray Darling Basin was in armageddon mode. The long-predi … more »
NSW, Victoria, South Australia policy-makers drought-panic leads to weasel words and tricky accounting
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: States have made a Declaration of emergency which requires to draining of more than 30 wetlands in t … more »
April 2008 Murray system disaster forecast; tree deaths, massive fish deaths, as water falls below the intake-pipes
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: Water-levels below Lock 1 were projected to fall from their current level of 0.25m Australian Height … more »
"Serious" says PM: NSW, Vic, and SA argue over dregs of Murray Darling Basin
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: “The 2007-08 water availability outlook for the southern Basin system is serious and has deteriora … more »
Compulsory water entitlement reductions under clause 77 of Water Bill allows de facto compulsory acquisition: Labor MP
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: The possibility that the long-term average sustainable water diversion limit or cap would have to be … more »
State governments share liability with Commonwealth for post-2014 water compensation: NSW government says change "unacceptable"
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: Clause 255 of the Water Bill 2007 provides that nothing in the Bill or regulations authorises the Co … more »
Independent management of Murray-Darling Basin in the national interest, said Turnbull
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: The Water Bill 2007 was a quantum leap into the future compared to the current lowest common denomin … more »
17 September: disaster-fears as Melbourne's water storages 38.9 per cent of capacity, 8 percentage points below the 46.6 per cent level of September 2006
waterweek wrote 10 months ago: Melbourne’s water storages were at 38.9 per cent of capacity nearly 8 percentage points below … more »
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