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  1. The murky truth about Adelaide water

    relies on the Murray River and rainfall in the Adelaide Hills catchment for its water supply. These ... the state's water supply has to be filtered and treated with large doses of chlorine. This is ... what gives it the murky colour and swimming-pool taste and aroma, makes Adelaide's water ...

  2. Water companies' criminal record

    as, for the second time within a month, they have been warned to boil their water, following the ... detection of the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium. The Sydney Water Corporation had announced on August ... 3 that the city's tap water was safe to drink. An article in 91自拍论坛 Weekly on August 12 ...

  3. Roger Waters 鈥 still bashing at the system's wall

    called one of the greatest. Since The Wall tour started in late 2010, Roger Waters has awed hundreds of ... there. Waters was the bassist and one of the vocalists in the legendary rock band Pink Floyd. He is ... support the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign targetting Israel. When Waters visited Palestine in ...

  4. A plan for water sustainability

    The current levels of water use are completely unsustainable in Australia. Excessive water use, ... especially by heavy industry and water-intensive agribusiness, is causing irreparable damage to our fragile ... ecosystems and creating chronic water shortages. Conventional free-market economics aims to solve this ...

  5. Western Australia's water crisis

    dominated by the issue of how to solve the problem of water supply in the state's south-west, including ... south-east of Perth, the situation is so bad that hundreds of thousands of litres of water have to be brought ... Barnett unveiled plans to build the world's longest canal to deliver water to Perth from the ...

  6. Briefs: Ireland protests water charges, Portugal marches against austerity

    Workers & unions Ireland: Protests hit 30 cities against water charge Tens of people took in ... 30 different protests across the Ireland against water charges on January 23, An Phoblacht said that ... government, that took place in Dublin. Right2Water spokesperson Brendan Ogle said the turnout showed that ...

  7. IRAQ: How the US intentionally destroyed Iraq's water supply

    used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply during and after the 1991 Gulf ... anyway". The primary document, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities", is dated January 22, 1991, ... and spells out how sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to its citizens. "Iraq ...

  8. Protests against SA water privatisation

    of the state's water supply. United Water, a French, English and Australian firm, has the ... contract to deliver water to every house, shop, office, factory and school in Adelaide. No other state ... government has gambled on giving a private supplier monopoly rights on water delivery. South Australians will ...

  9. CSG risks Sydney's drinking water

    of lying about his pre-election promise to protect farmland and drinking water catchments from the ... Illawarra's biggest concerns is the protection of water catchment areas. Moore said: "O'Farrell ... promised to ban exploration and mining in the drinking water catchment. This was, quite clearly, ...

  10. Is blood thicker than water?

    brothers do when they can't stand each other's politics? Is blood thicker than water? In this new ... water between Indonesia and Australia, within Australia's zone of surveillance by navy and air ... human emotions and moral conundrums. Hazem Al Ayad's moving description of floating in the water ...

  11. Anger at water privatisation deal

    February 5 to approve a deal to privatise water delivery on kwaZulu-Natal's Dolphin Coast. The deal ... gives the French multinational company Saur International control of the municipality's water ... deal, as well as another 30-year water privatisation contract with the British giant Biwater for water ...

  12. Drugs in the water

    By Peter Montague A new class of water pollutants has been discovered during the past six years. ... tranquillisers and chemotherapy chemicals given to cancer patients, are being measured in surface water, ground ... water and drinking water at the tap. Large quantities of drugs are excreted by humans and domestic ...

  13. Santos wins fracking approval for Towrie gas development

    Environment and Water had issued Santos a 54-year approval to develop a 116-well coal seam gas project in ... information聽request showing the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment鈥檚 July 2021 assessment of ... threatened species and communities and water resources.鈥 It was recommended that the project be subject to ...

  14. Bosswatch: Water workers to strike, mining giants 'cut fat'

    Workers & unions Paul Benedek Water workers to strike Workers at Sydney Water, angered by the ... which will conduct a further two weeks of negotiations with Sydney Water management, is worried that ... after 335 job cuts Sydney Water wants a new enterprise agreement that will make it easier to sack even ...

  15. User-pays water

    User-pays water By Kristy Koglin ADELAIDE 鈥 The pressure to privatise any form of consumption has ... brought into question the free supply of water. The drought and declining water quality have also brought ... into question water management. One proposal is for rural users to have allocated amounts of water that ...

  16. Water trading is drought profiteering

    Ben Courtice The worst drought in 1000 years means that water shortage is as burning issue across ... Australians believe governments are not doing enough about water conservation, a view that has since been ... reinforced. But just how well will restrictions, water saving devices such as dual-flush toilets and rainwater ...

  17. Army running water and power services in Pakistan

    By Farooq Tariq LAHORE 鈥 In a drastic move to curb trade union activity in the power and water ... sector, the Pakistan government last month "suspended" the trade unions covering the Water and ... real motivation for the attack on the electricity and water workers is the government's ...

  18. Water guzzling corporations

    Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Despite the longstanding water supply crisis in Queensland, big ... business continues to guzzle water. According to an angry front page report in the June 9 Courier Mail: ... "Water-guzzling big business continues to erode the sacrifices made by south-east Queensland residents, who were ...

  19. NSW Water Board changes studied

    NSW Water Board changes studied By Gail Lord PENRITH 鈥 A public seminar organised by the ... for privatising the water supply. Other such forums have been held in Sydney and Liverpool.The meeting ... behalf of the Water Board, EPA and the tribunal as well as residents, small business people and the ...

  20. Water in England 鈥 scarce, dirty and profitable

    Water supply in England and Wales was privatised four years ago. CATHERINE BROWN reports on the ... drinking water up to the European Community standard for nitrates. This followed a six-year campaign by ... environmental offence. The high level of nitrate in drinking water is due to fertilisers used in agriculture. ...

  21. Alternatives to desalinated water

    to get moving on? One obvious one is to recycle storm water and grey water (from washing machines and ... argue that household rainwater tanks would significantly reduce the city's demand on water ... supplies. According to NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen, "multiplying the number of Sydney homes with water ...

  22. Dangers of chlorinated water

    chlorine added to drinking water as a disinfectant. In the US, chlorine is added to public drinking water ... to kill harmful bacteria. The chlorine reacts with naturally occurring organic matter in the water ... water regulations, if a public water supply serving more than 10,000 people contains over 100 parts per ...

  23. Palestine: Israeli water policies leave West Bank dry

    capita water consumption in Palestine is far below the minimum recommended by the World Health ... Organisation (WHO). The chronic water shortage in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, ... resulting from an unfair distribution of water resources shared by the Palestinians and Israel, will be much ...

  24. Nuclear power and water scarcity

    Jim Green Sue Wareham The connections between water scarcity, power generation and the federal ... government's promotion of nuclear power are worth reflecting on with National Water Week held from October ... water-hungry of all energy sources, with a single reactor consuming 35-65 million litres of water each day. ...

  25. Water giant threatens opponents

    bidder" for the Nelspruit's water and waste services, in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, is ... million rand (A$83 million) deal, which will hand control of the city's water supply to Biwater for ... bourgeoisie'." The privatisation of Nelspruit's water has become a test case, with other councils interested ...

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