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  1. Liberals, Nationals split on agricultural chemicals

    Department's Division of Occupational Health and Safety is pitifully inadequate. Town water supplies throughout ... water supplies on the north coast. Existing legislation is not being enforced. For example, regulations ... subsidisation of chemical monoculture, particularly in western NSW, with water charges at $4-$8 a megalitre, ...

  2. Deliberately contributing to disaster

    and agricultural supplies to critically low levels. The Baghdad water supply was operating at 10% of ... its previous capacity, and some of the available supply was drawn from sewage-polluted sources. Water ... With the Iraqi summer imminent, a serious escalation of water, food, sanitation and health problems was ...

  3. The Elbe: from a sewer back to a river?

    In both Germanies, the conservation of water resources was and is anchored in law. In fact, the GDR ... even had an article in its constitution declaring the conservation of water resources a prime ... water-testing and publicity voyage up the Elbe. In Magdeburg it blocked effluent outlets of the chemical giant ...

  4. Cutting aid costs jobs

    trainers to help improve education, literacy, health and increase the provision of safe water". The ... workers) and provision of safe water for 1.75 billion people and adequate sanitation for 3 billion ...

  5. Study urges cut in pesticide use

    20,000 annually) and decreased damage to water supplies and fish. The study, by Cornell University ...

  6. Villagers continue fight against dam

    had farmed for generations. But in January 1989, the dam gates were closed. As the water rose they ...

  7. World summit aims to save the environment

    diversity; protection of fresh water resources; protection of oceans, seas and coastal areas, and the ...

  8. Tasmanian pulp mill: there are alternatives

    a third of the water used by kraft mills. Such mills are more labour intensive, employing about the same ...

  9. A radical vision, badly needed

    needs and human satisfaction" mean "clean air, water, food and preservation of other living ...

  10. German Greens conference ends in stand-off

    vote had been taken, two Fundis fired water pistols at Realo delegates, who responded by emptying beer ...