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  1. Answers demanded about Ranger contamination

    traditional owners of Kakadu, remain deeply concerned about the recent contamination of drinking water and ... water systems surrounding the mine. The mine was forced to close on March 24 after it was revealed that ... workers had ingested water contaminated with uranium, acids and other chemicals. Contaminated water from ...

  2. Write on: Letters to the editor

    the vast natural resource comprising the seabed within NZ's territorial waters. At least 25 ... materials at the Ranger uranium mine are less than surprising. Workers who realised their drinking water was ... "hot" (toxic, radioactive) process water accidentally overflowing into the surrounding water systems of ...

  3. A horribly funny tragedy

    watching their children drown in the raging water around them. It is a symbolic reminder that the Senate ... politics do not yet dare to go — deep into the treacherous drowning waters of Australia's Operation ...

  4. Fishing the sea dry

    above water. His instinct for survival leads him to play by his own dirty rules. He has bitter memories ... cops are about to catch him in the act of throwing a bomb into the water, he sinks the boat, including ... the new motor that he paid a small fortune for. Later, facing economic ruin, he dives into the water ...

  5. SOUTH AFRICA: The frustrating decade of freedom

    15% (to $22,600 per year). Notwithstanding deeper poverty, the state raised water and electricity ... earning less than $70 per month. An estimated 10 million people had their water cut off, according to two ... during apartheid. Diarrhea kills 43,000 children a year, as a result mainly of inadequate potable water ...

  6. Refugee activists to lock up Howard

    Hope trip to Nauru for World Refugee Day in June will set up a water-based protest near Kirribilli ...

  7. COLOMBIA: Workers starved for justice

    world as well — including the US. Then there is the question of water. The company has been caught out ... have been able to buy water from the government at a rate well below what ordinary Colombians have to ...

  8. Greens challenge two-party system

    will have to conform to strict environmental design principles including solar power, water-saving and ... suspicious of the Greens. In rural and regional areas, the Greens have taken up issues of water rights, the ...

  9. South East Qld: The treacle effect

    services: garbage collection was privatised; water metering was introduced; user-pays principles were ...