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Summit fiddles while drought burns Australia
Ben Courtice Naarm/Melbourne As the November 7 emergency water summit of federal and state ... needed". The summit has called for permanent water trading, meaning buying water from rural areas and ... water flows to wetlands to supply drinking water. Siewert condemned Howard's short-sightedness. ...
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Climate change, drought and solutions
and towns face drastic restrictions and farmers confront an uncertain future. The water crisis gives ... in the November 25 state election. Obviously, the fundamental challenge is to use a lot less water ... pipes), developing more efficient irrigation systems (more than three-quarters of the state's water ...
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Environmentalists oppose mine discharge
NWA said on November 4 that Compass Resources has applied to release contaminated water into the ...
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Letters to the Editor
of ships in international waters as no better than piracy. They can see clearly how the UN is being ... Baby bonus With global warming affecting our water and power supplies to our major cities it is a no ... put under the two-car driveway to collect grey water to nurture their water guzzling lawns. Their ...
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What would it take to make poverty history?
biggest killer of children is preventable diseases caused by lack of clean water. The G20's solution ... — the privatisation of water supplies for the benefit of Western multinationals — will decrease access ... to clean water. The term "free market" is deceptive. Freedom for multinationals to exploit ...
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Palestine: Butchery in Beit Hanoun
siege, the town was completely sealed. Water, electricity and phone lines were cut off, and the UN team ... tens of thousands are deprived of potable water. The Gaza Strip, with 1.4 million residents, is ...
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The 'Battle of Oaxaca' intensifies
five-month-old makeshift barricades and dispersed protesters with helicopters, armoured trucks using water ...