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  1. Murray-Darling water disaster escalates

    Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new ... irrigation year begins on Sunday鈥 Howard's grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July ... output, much of which will now be endangered. The SMH reported that some water "would be made ...

  2. Murray-Darling water disaster escalates

    Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new ... irrigation year begins on Sunday... Howard's grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July ... that some water "would be made available to keep citrus trees going for the fruit harvest and for ...

  3. Order to not offer refugee food & water brings detention centre guard to tears

    got onto the roof, SERCO guards have been directed not to provide or offer him food or water on ... medical advice that he should be able to survive for a couple days on the roof without food or water. As ... spokesperson Carl O鈥機onnor said: 鈥淭he direction by the department that this man not be offered food and water ...

  4. GUAM: Protest held against water privatisation

    Contending that water is a resource belonging to the people of Guam, I Nasion Chamoru organised ...

  5. Poisoning of Gaza water puts population at risk

    estimates Monther Shoblak, director general of the Coastal Municipality Water Utility (CMWU). In some areas, ... poisoned. Ninety percent of the water available in Gaza from its only source 鈥 the coastal aquifer 鈥 is ... Palestinians in Gaza, Monther and his staff at the Coastal Municipalities Water Utilities are forced to ...

  6. Super trawler kills seals and dolphins in Australian waters

    Australian waters. 鈥淭he Australian Fisheries Management Authority and sectors of the fishing industry have ... waters.鈥 April 26, 2015 1050 Stop The Super Trawlers rally and march, Port Adelaide April 26 2015. Photo: ...

  7. Radioactive water contaminates Kakadu

    hearing that contaminated water was leaking into rock fissures beneath Kakadu National Park. Up to 100,000 ... litres of contaminated water from the mine tailings dam is escaping every day, said the March 13 Age. ...

  8. Global warming in the Himalayas 鈥 the threat to Asia's water

    of water. "My house is above 4000 metres high", Dorje told 91自拍论坛 Weekly. "Because ... rivers in Asia. More than 1.3 billion people rely on this water for drinking and food production. Climate ... South Asia could be suffering significant water shortages and crop yields could decrease by as much as ...

  9. Invasion Day Protest 2023

    the ongoing impacts of colonisation that continues to destroy our land and waters. As the oldest ...

  10. Groups call on O'Farrell gov't to to act on contaminated CSG water spill

    a statement admitting that 10,000 litres of untreated coal seam gas water spilled into the Pilliga Forest in ... Infrastructure and Services (DTIRIS) who responded that the tree die-back was most likely due to water logging. ... treated coal seam gas water high in ammonia and cyanide into local creeks. January 13, 2012 907 Stop CSG ...

  11. CSG water catchment ban heats up in Illawarra

    federal water trigger. Participants cheered at news of the recent announcements by Metgasco and Dart to ... aim over the next period would be to continue the campaign for a CSG ban in NSW drinking water ...

  12. Musharraf and democracy are like fire and water

    Nasir, a student from Pakistan, said: "Musharraf and democracy are like fire and water 鈥 they do not ... solidarity: Eduardo Yssa from the National Coalition for the Defence of Water, Basic Services, the Environment ...

  13. Plutonium waste to pass through Australian waters

    Plutonium waste to pass through Australian waters By Lisa Renfrey Greenpeace, the Tasmanian Greens ... through their waters. In the absence of Australian government opposition, this makes it even more likely ...

  14. Board's case doesn't hold water

    By Robin Osborne Many Sydneysiders remain sceptical about how the NSW Water Board is handling the ... years ago, after the exposure of a long cover-up by the Water Board, the state Coalition announced ... a tap. Yet the Water Board's charges for the block include the levy to pay for its costly upgrading ...

  15. Study finds pollution of Tasmanian waters

    mine closes on December 15. Water from the Queen River flows into the King River, and then into ... Land Management report, there is some evidence that King River water was implicated. The pollution ...

  16. 3000 Water Board jobs threatened

    By Jill Hickson SYDNEY 鈥 The Sydney Water Board is planning to axe 3000 jobs over the next two ... years. On February 17, the Water and Maritime Industry Union released a document from the board which ...

  17. NT power and water unions hold firm

    Power and Water Authority unions took their wages dispute with the government to the Industrial ...

  18. Mines laid in Solomon Islands waters

    the waters that separate the Solomons' Shortlands Province from southern Bougainville. The blast ... waters of the Solomons have been studiously ignored by the Australian media. The PNG military has ... were intercepted by speedboats launched from a PNGDF patrol boat. One was blown out of the water, and ...

  19. GUATEMALA: Water, poverty and CAFTA

    by the "drought". The head (and only staff member) of the municipal water department, Juan ... Solidarity). The organisation facilitates community access to clean drinking water. Around half of the 43,000 ... its water service in Fray as does a family that lives below the poverty line. "The biggest ...

  20. Connex fails the soapy water test

    fleet of new Siemens trains were unable to brake if soapy water was on the tracks. Since late 2006, ... that all the new trains fail the soapy water test. In an attempt to minimise the brake failures, Connex ...

  21. Huge rally tells O'Farrell to protect our land and water

    protect prime agricultural land and our water. The government has also failed to even acknowledge the ...

  22. Senate Candidate MaryBeth Gundrum says 'No water, no life'.

    environment, water, health, First Nations peoples and human rights. I agreed to run because I kept hearing from ... industry has devastated communities, destroyed ecosystems, threatened entire species and stolen our water ... MaryBeth Gundrum says 'No water, no life'. Analysis ...

  23. Hot water leads to sustainable jobs

    solar hot water units. It is currently fundraising to buy a manufacturing licence. With strong support ... will be ready to make solar hot water units under licence. Carly Hammond, the Strategic Partnership ... ensuring that opportunities are created for all Australians. For Julian Waters-Lynch, the facilitator of ...

  24. Gold lust threatens water catchment

    water, rivers, communities, industries and the food chain. The NPWS did not invite applications for ... government. The granting of Ross Mining's licence to pump 2.5 million litres of water a day from the ... Timbarra River was followed by an embargo on other water users. A downstream licence to graze was cancelled ...

  25. Labor鈥檚 refugee policy is just a watered down version of the Liberals

    Nauru site initially lacked water, sanitation and electricity with asylum seekers housed under harsh ... operations to increase them? On refugees, as on most things, Labor is just a watered-down version of Liberal. ... reinforced for me how Labor is now just a watered-down version of Liberal; how their politicians are ...

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