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  1. New CSG policy in NSW breaks promises and fails to protect drinking water

    land and water. Stop CSG Illawarra has described the plans released today as a disaster and a broken ... election promise; and one that fails to protect drinking water catchments. Spokesperson Jess Moore said: ... "The government promised to create no-go zones to protect water, agriculture and the environment from ...

  2. Fijian women oppose water privatisation

    The Fiji Women's Rights Movement is protesting the March 13 promulgation of the Water ... will provide more "effective management" of water, including "opportunities for ... competition in the provision of water" and facilitating the "corporatisation of the Water Authority ...

  3. Plan to re-use Sydney's water

    Sydney Water estimates that it could cost $7 billion to clean up Sydney's waterways, and as ... Sydney Water with its planning. When 240,000 people turned out at Bondi Beach in 1989 for a rally against ... beach pollution, it served notice on the Water Board (now Sydney Water) that the public wanted the ...

  4. SOUTH AFRICA: Protest opposes pre-paid water

    Hundreds of people came together on November 16 to protest the installation of pre-paid water ... Anti-Privatisation Forum, Independent Baptists, Jubilee and the Coalition Against Water Privatisations. From Green ...

  5. Green light to privatise water

    On March 22, World Water Day, Malcolm Turnbull said that water is Australia's most precious ... debate and accountability on urban water issues", Turnbull said. However, on February 23, addressing ... bankers and economists to fast-track private investment in water supply. "We know that there is ...

  6. Peru: Protests oppose water privatisation

    privatise public water services. The protest was organised by small neighbourhoods and the public water ... workers' union Sedapal. Millions of people across Peru lack basic water and sewer systems, putting them in ... water services. The protest was organised by small neighbourhoods and the public water workers' ...

  7. Call for moratorium on water licenses

    Graeme Dunstan Orange The NSW Greens have called for moratorium on the issuing of water licenses ... water resources in the basin has been made. The call came from an August 25 public forum hosted by the ... struggling against the degradation of land and water by mines in various parts of NSW. The mining industry is ...

  8. Sustainable water policies now!

    government's unsustainable water plans. Premier John Brumby's government plans to solve Melbourne's ... water problems by building a desalination plant near Wonthaggi and a water pipeline from the Goulburn ... River to Melbourne. Desalination is a very costly and energy-intensive solution to the water crisis. The ...

  9. Ireland: Huge anti-water charge march says 'We're not going away, you know'

    thousands of people took part in a huge anti-water charge rally in Dublin on August 29 under the banner: ... 鈥淲e鈥檙e not going away, you know!鈥 This is the fifth demonstration Right2Water has organised in opposition ... to deeply unpopular water charges. About 500,000 people have attended Right2Water protests to date. ...

  10. Who&#146s draining our water away?

    Owen Richards Australia is in the grip of a water shortage crisis. In NSW and Victoria, water ... Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains. They stipulate certain acceptable times for watering gardens ... and legislate appropriate backyard pool levels, as well as making the use of sprinklers, watering ...

  11. Poison in bore water

    Poison in bore water By Stephen Robson PERTH 鈥 Bore water in suburban Dianella has been found to ... to give the water to pets or to use it on gardens. Atrazine is widely used by local government ...

  12. Howard's water crisis plan

    water crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin contains some measures that are small steps in the right ... behind the plan lurks the spectre of increased privatisation of water resources. The four Murray-Darling ... beholden to the water-guzzling cotton and rice growing industries 鈥 should be taken seriously. On the other ...

  13. Water crisis: how the market economy is sucking us dry

    Tony Iltis As with other environmental issues, Australia's water crisis has reached such an ... poverty, there is an underlying assumption that the water crisis can be overcome by the very thing that ... the drought means that it cannot be seen as cyclical 鈥 strategies for dealing with the water crisis ...

  14. BHP caught polluting water at Whyalla

    waters surrounding BHP's Whyalla steelworks have levels of zinc and ammonia up to 320 times above ...

  15. Detroit cuts off water for the poor, communities fight back

    has been added-- cutting off water to the poorest, creating a humanitarian and health crisis. Dianne ... National Nurses United called a July 18 demonstration in which 1000 people marched against the water ... cut-offs, condemning the move as a severe health hazard. In response, Feeley said that on July 21, the water ...

  16. Fracking threatens North America's vital water supplies

    fresh 鈥 and increasingly scarce 鈥 water supply on which they, too, depend. Fracking 鈥 or hydraulic ... enormous amounts of fresh water no matter where it takes place, a troubling new study released on February ... where water is running out. Overlay the regions where most fracking is taking place in North America ...

  17. United Nations warns Detroit over water cut-off

    cut-offs could constitute a violation of the human right to water. Several groups concerned about Detroit ... residents who had their water shut off for nonpayment had taken the unusual step of appealing to the UN for ... Office of the High Commissioner saying that mass water shut-offs were leaving poor people and families at ...

  18. Corporate greed drives water crisis

    what we have to to secure the water supply", NSW planning minister Frank Sartor told ABC TV's ... cost the government up to $1.9 billion. The first consortium vying for the contract is Blue Water ... the proposed plant, Charles Essery, is a former NSW government adviser on sewerage and water policy. ...

  19. Nauru camp running out of water, email reveals

    Refugees & migrants Ellie Thomas Nauru detention camps鈥 water reserves are close to running ... currently nearly out of water 鈥 Due to recent outages at the DIBP RO [immigration department reverse osmosis ... facility] we have not been able to build up stock so have been slowly going backwards.鈥 Tight water ...

  20. NSW closer to CSG ban in water catchments

    a policy to ban coal seam gas (CSG) development in the Sydney drinking water catchment. This is the first ... commitment from a major party to support exclusion zones to protect our water. Stop CSG Illawarra ... decision. "We want the land in NSW that supplies our drinking water protected. A ban on CSG in drinking ...

  21. INDIA: Coca-Cola swallows villagers' fresh water

    yields from the paddy fields of the area indicate the land's strength is its supply of fresh water ... . Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Limited has recognised the value of the land and its water. A Coca-Cola plant ... of thousands of litres of clean water. All the water requirements of the plant are met from more than ...

  22. Nylex succumbs to 'oversupply' of water tanks

    Nylex is a well-known name 鈥 the company produces the iconic Esky, water tanks, wheelie bins, hose and ... "The drought and a government rebate stimulated demand for water tanks, but oversupply pushed down ... job losses. However, the notion of an "oversupply" of water tanks when Victoria is faced ...

  23. Widespread contamination of US drinking water

    Responsibility (PSR) states that more than 14 million people in the USA routinely drink water that is ... contaminated with carcinogenic herbicides. The report, entitled "Tap Water Blues", investigates the ... contamination, often by two or more of the herbicides, in the drinking water of all three regions. At least 90% ...

  24. Watering the dry continent

    pages, $27.95 Thirsty Country: Options for Australia is a useful summary of the water crisis that ... Australia is currently facing. It covers domestic and agricultural water usage 鈥 looking at the water ... systems of five major Australian cities, an overview of water use in agriculture and a section ...

  25. Ireland: Huge water protest brings Dublin to standstill

    city on December 10 in the latest mass demonstration against the introduction of water charges. ... Right2Water campaign 鈥 was the third major protest against the charges in two months. It came after a 100,000 ... 200,000 in dozens of towns and cities. The introduction of new charges on water use, levied via new ...

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