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  1. 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 ...

  2. Victorian water campaigners unite

    Ben Courtice Naarm/Melbourne Victoria's three largest community water campaign groups have ... united to campaign for sustainable alternatives to the state government's new water infrastructure ... Victoria annnounced the formation of the Victorian Water Forum (VWF) and called on the state government to ...

  3. Desalination plant damned by government's own figures

    Ben Courtice Naarm/Melbourne Campaign group Your Water Your Say (YWYS) has warned that Victorian ... state government policy will see the state "swimming in water but drowning in water bills" by ... climate change and increasing population, there will still be as much as 60% excess water available ...

  4. 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. ...

  5. Pipeline protesters blockade reservoir

    a pipeline from the Goulburn River to Melbourne's water supplies. The Goulburn River feeds into the ... targeted water savings from improvements in irrigation infrastructure in the area as a reason to divert ... water to Melbourne. But, as protest organiser Jan Beer from Yea explained to 麻豆传媒 Weekly, the ...

  6. Desal plant an unnecessary corporate hand-out

    the proposed site. South Gippsland residents have formed a Your Water Your Say action group to oppose ... Wonthaggi. Melbourne's wasteful water consumption is at the centre of the campaign against the plant. ... opposed to the desalination plant, advocate a compulsory "water substitution target" of 30% for ...

  7. Anti-desal protesters target plant site

    Brumby and [water minister Tim] Holding push ahead." The March 9 Melbourne Age revealed funding for ... greater efforts were made to cut water use. The report came two weeks before the desalination plant plans ... actually sourced any new water as yet". Watershed claims its its alternative suggestions "could ...

  8. Desalination plant: cost keeps rising

    Victoria has been leading the campaign against the plant. The groups said "water from the plant must ... cost at least five times what we get from Melbourne water now." Watershed president Stephen Cannon ... current Melbourne Water energy use. It says desalination will use 18 times more than the energy currently ...

  9. Bass Coast council quits desal talks

    group Your Water Your Say (YWYS) has launched a Melbourne campaign group. Convener Mike Neighbour told ... emissions and this plant is a carbon factory. The other big issue is the price of water and the fact that ... Victorians will be held ransom to foreign water companies forever." To contact the Melbourne YWYS group ...

  10. Desalination EES 'stage-managed'

    September 4, state water minister Tim Holding visited Wonthaggi to meet with the community. He was met by ... it", Andrea Bolch, president of Your Water Your Say (YWYS), told 麻豆传媒 Weekly. The EES is more ... of the water augmentation options available to Melbourne and... does not include costing information ...

  11. Desalination campaign takes to Melbourne

    protesters at the conference. The protest organisers, anti-desalination campaign group Your Water Your Say ... environmentally damaging method of providing water to Melbourne has been chosen". On May 16, the YWYS's ... desalination is expected to be passed on to domestic water bills, probably increasing them threefold, the YWYS ...

  12. Hazelwood: Coal mine to hydro dam?

    鈥渞ehabilitating鈥 the mine would be to let it fill with water naturally, perhaps to become a recreational lake. The ... hitch: it would take more than a hundred years to fill naturally and the water quality would be terrible ... due to pollution from coal seams. But part filling the mine with water, or a dam constructed in it, ...

  13. Climate change, poverty and 'natural' disasters

    water resources, told the October 7 Hindustan Times. Dr Santosh Kumar of the National Institute of ... forest cover can help to soak up rainfall and slow water flows, as well as stabilising steep slopes at ... benefits for water security. Research suggests that for Melbourne, ending logging in water catchments could ...

  14. South Gippsland declared 鈥楥SG Free鈥

    clean uncontaminated water. 鈥淭here is no room here for the CSG industry, we place a much greater value ... on our food and water security than supporting the expansion of the gas export market.鈥 South ...

  15. Co-op to 鈥榳ork our way out of the climate emergency鈥

    campaign seeks to build a cooperatively-owned factory making solar hot water systems in Morwell, Victoria. ... Eureka鈥檚 Future Workers Cooperative, which will manufacture solar hot water systems. 鈥淚n the wage clauses ...

  16. Government to bankrupt desalination protesters

    Ben Courtice Your Water Your Say (YWYS), the group campaigning against Victoria's proposed ... to solve Melbourne's water problems. By taking this action they will try to ensure they never ...

  17. Crucial reading for grasping the Indigenous economy

    canals to hold and move water. They traded valuable products like axe-heads, smoked eels and possum-skin ...

  18. Climate, jobs and immigration: a solution

    disasters that climate change is throwing its way. Its glaciers are melting, affecting the water security of ... millions, in a country that is too poor to have safe, drinkable tap water to start with. Unlike Australia, ... Bolivia cannot simply build expensive (and polluting) desalination plants when water is short. Even if it ...

  19. Seaspray locals condemn fracking ban loophole

    21: 鈥淲e will never, ever allow onshore gas, if it jeopardises our underground water, if it jeopardises ... mean 鈥渇armers would be moved on from farm gates for defending their water, their livelihoods and the ...

  20. Philippines: A call for grassroots flood aid

    and rescue family members from the raging waters." An October 5 statement from the KMU union ... health care and medicines, clean tap water and sanitation services." To help with grassroots relief ...

  21. Call to extend fracking moratorium in Victoria

    鈥淕ippslanders do not feel that their very valid concerns around water usage, water and land contamination, human ... that there was ''no way the Coalition government will put at risk the water aquifers, the ... if such an industry will be safe for people, land and water. The way to get this is through a state ...

  22. Ecofeminism meets ecosocialism

    understanding of their natural environment. Socialist Alliance's water management policy includes the ... for water conservation." Themes like this recur in the book. The various essays differ ...

  23. Immigration: Australia's favourite scapegoat

    "water infrastructure鈥 transport infrastructure and service delivery, including health". He said: ... housing, transport and health? Is it going to address Australia's unsustainably high water use? Or ...

  24. Petrol fuels Australia's record greenhouse emissions growth

    the report suggests was probably due to its cooling water being heated by the weather. In the event, ...

  25. Community win against coal seam gas bid

    outcome. 鈥淕iven the impacts of mineral sands operations on water and land, it is hard to imagine the ...

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