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1. Murray-Darling river communities demand water over-extraction ends

   water for industrial scale irrigation and mining. Environment groups and local communities want NSW ... Labor to implement new water-sharing rules that raise the amounts flowing into Menindee Lakes and on to ... Resources Commission (NRC) review of the water-sharing rules governing Menindee Lakes and the Lower ...

2. ‘Marine apocalypse’: Algal bloom devastates South Australia’s coastal ecosystems

   Karenia mikimotoi, a dinoflagellate that thrives in warm, stagnant water and emits toxins lethal to marine ... belt. SA Minister for Climate, Environment and Water Susan Close has sounded the alarm on how climate ... our coastal waters”, with the bloom extending across an area roughly the size of Kangaroo Island and ...

3. First Nations push for water rights in extended Murray Darling Basin plan

   Climate crisis Indigenous Tracey Carpenter Murray Darling Basin Plan We Stand by Our River Water ... For Rivers Water Amendment (Restoring our Rivers) Bill 2023 Reforms to save rivers in the Murray ... basin is home, have suffered for years because of the over-allocation of water to corporations. ...

4. Fight back needed for a stronger federal environment law

   environment and water campaigners are fighting what they see as Labor’s walk back on its promised reforms to ... disarming water trigger laws, which only passed late last year. Environmentalists and Greens and independent ... MPs won a major victory, late last year, when Labor agreed to extend the water trigger in the  EPBC to ...

5. Labor needs to move on Murray-Darling Basin water protection

   Darling/Baarka Water Water For Rivers An unreleased report from the New South Wales Department of Fisheries is ... a desperate state after two years of good rainfall? Converting a vital resource — water — into a marketable ... a significant threat to the whole country. Water scarcity affects not only drinking water, but agriculture and ...

6. Menindee Elder says private water ownership to blame for Darling River flooding

   Climate crisis Democracy Tracey Carpenter flooding Water First Nations justice and sovereignty ... Wales’ far west, was caused by Queensland holding water to grow canola, sorghum and cotton rather than ... latest flood in her home on the sand hills of Menindee. Her home is above the flood waters, near the main ...

7. Water activists demand an end to corporate water theft

   Environment Beryl Carmichael Barry Stone Ian Sutton Tracey Carpenter Water Murray-Darling Basin ... Water activists will blockade the Barrier Highway at Wilcannia Bridge in NSW on March 13, to protest ... water theft, cultural oppression and ecocide. Protesters will also organise actions on bridges ...

8. Despite La Niña, water remains a critical election issue

   more than 40 First Nations nations, provides drinking water for 3.5 million people and is essential for ... and its water distribution plan needs to weighed up because, while La Niña means rivers are flowing ... and some floodplains have been inundated, too much water is being allocated to irrigators. There is ...

9. Joyce’s Dungowan Dam election promises overpriced water

   Tamworth and more than 80 New South Wales towns faced “day zeros” — empty dams and emergency water carting. ... Department of Water Infrastructure and away from having to be commercially viable.  The Dungowan Dam project ... help boost Tamworth’s water supply, such as the managed recharge of the area’s aquifers and other water ...

10. Colonialism continues with First Nations’ water dispossession

    Agriculture Climate crisis Environment Indigenous Tracey Carpenter Water First Nations justice and ... Nations peoples can be seen in the devastating impact of stolen water rights. A 2020 report from Griffith ... University researchers on the diminishing water rights of Traditional Owners of the rivers which make up the Murray ...

11. ACCC report confirms water market failure, but recommends more of the same

    Environment Tracey Carpenter Water Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ... Murray-Darling Basin Authority Water For Rivers The federal government is sitting on a water crisis, brought on ... by the marketisation of water, and must act to restore water to rivers, farmers and communities, ...

12. Are new dams an answer to the water crisis?

    Environment Tracey Carpenter Murray Darling Basin Plan Water irrigation Baaka River The New South ... to the state’s water crisis. But are they? Water experts advise that such large infrastructure ... projects do not necessarily save water, but instead divert water to irrigation, potentially killing rivers and ...

13. After the rain, water is still being stolen

    Environment Tracey Carpenter Elena Garcia Water Murray-Darling Basin Despite recent rains, the ... water crisis of inland northern New South Wales communities is far from dissipating. People in ... over-extraction from their rivers by corporate irrigators has left the remaining water unfit for human use. For ...

14. Looking into an abyss — with no water

    Climate crisis Environment Tracey Carpenter Water drought First Nations people's knowledge ... and rights have been overlooked as the largest privatisation of water on the planet has been underway. ... now has one of the world’s largest water markets, worth $27 billion, 10.5% of which is foreign-owned. ...

15. Lead concerns prompt NSW central west to demand toxic gold and silver mines are closed

    to protect the community from toxic dust poisoning water tanks. Toxic dust has been blowing off the ... nickel and copper. Water scientist Professor Ian Wright found high contamination levels in drinking water ... said results from residents water tank testing were damning. It showed 83% of the water samples ...

16. New hope for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

    Agriculture Climate crisis Tracey Carpenter Murray Darling Basin Plan Water Productivity ... (MDBP). It includes reinstating water buy-backs, a National Water Commission policy to drive ongoing water ... reform. Now that Labor has a majority and Tanya Plibersek is the new Minister for Environment and Water ...

17. NSW government fails to privatise floodwaters a third time

    Environment Tracey Carpenter irrigation floodplain harvesting Water An unprecedented expansion of ... the privatisation of water has been averted with the defeat of the New South Wales government’s third ... have handed out billions of litres of water licences without the conditions needed to guarantee ...

18. Probing the wounds of a scarred country

    Books & music Climate crisis Environment Indigenous Tracey Carpenter Water Murray Darling ... permanent water.” Beresford sees the squatters rise to power as an instructive model for the Murray-Darling ... and later water managers have tried to encourage reform for the public good and curtail the ambitions ...

19. Gundungurra Traditional Owners: ‘Warragamba Dam project must be stopped’

    Sydney's water — by up to 17 metres, flooding 6000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed Greater Blue ... didn’t go until just before it flooded.” burragorang-valley-sydney-water.jpg Burragorang Valley before it ... was flooded. Photo: Sydney Water While a committee was formed at the time to resist the land grab, ...

20. Dams: simplistic, costly and not a quick-fix

    Environment Tracey Carpenter dams Wyangala Dam Water For Rivers The federal government has ... made of their business cases, environmental approvals, water sharing plans and how they will impact on ... impact of reduced flows to downstream users and wetlands. Water for Rivers activists joined community ...

21. Murray Darling Basin plan must address colonialism

    exacerbated the fault lines of water management in the nation’s food bowl in New South Wales. But beyond the ... impact of a warming climate, scientists have uncovered that 20% of water has gone missing, under the  ... itself by failing to address the systemic problems of the federal cap-and-trade water reforms and ...

22. NSW government forced back to drawing board on floodplain harvesting

    Plan The NSW government’s water management plan is in crisis since the Legislative Council rejected its ... 20 of the state’s water resource plans. Minister for Water, Property and Housing Melinda Pavey made ... that would have enabled billions of dollars worth of licences to harvest flood waters across the ...

23. How the Murray-Darling River was killed

    waters on the driest inhabited continent. But rather than providing yet another detached survey of ... sustainable diversion limits, extraction monitoring and water trading, Simons actually speaks to the people ... dependent upon the inland waters. She gives voice to a cross section of these people as she moves along the ...