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  1. User-pays water

    User-pays water By Kristy Koglin ADELAIDE — The pressure to privatise any form of consumption has ... brought into question the free supply of water. The drought and declining water quality have also brought ... into question water management. One proposal is for rural users to have allocated amounts of water that ...

  2. US to phase out cancer-causing pesticides

    the ruling for dozens of chemicals on a host of crops. The agreement should also help protect water ... supplies from pesticide contamination. Agricultural chemicals are one of the biggest water pollutants, and ... the EPA has found that one of every 10 public water supply wells in the US contains at least one ...

  3. Aborigines win deal over national park

    because of alleged water contamination. The Waanyi people had vowed that police would have to evict them ...

  4. Alliance formed to save Georges River

    upper reaches of the river, had not been seen for 30 years. In the study, water rats were expected to be ... penetrates just a few centimetres beneath the water surface. The smell is of putrefaction. This is despite ... Wilson, former Water Board managing director and author of the Georges River Basin Plan, in a release to ...

  5. Mass arrests at Wild Cattle Creek

    Creek is also important for its role in water catchment in the Coffs Harbour region. With a drought ... affecting 95% of NSW, the area around Dorrigo is low on water. Julian feels that the logging will do ... "significant damage to the water catchment of Coffs Harbour". "The area was mainly clear-felled, ...

  6. Destructive logging spreads in Solomons

    a stay in the five star hotel, prostitutes, alcohol and gifts such as water tanks and fibreglass canoes ... other way. Eventually even those who did receive the money and gifts (water tanks to compensate for the ...

  7. Hope for Whian Whian State Forest

    The region is also an important water catchment for Lismore. There are five logging contractors ...

  8. Pesticides found in milk in India

    established in 1968, and that no pesticide limits had been set for animal feed, water, air or soil. [From ...

  9. Loose cannons

    over a liquid waste depot found to have leached toxic chemicals into ground water. Gee, thanks, Paul ...

  10. It's hard to find a green ban when you need one

    cistern of the one and only toilet. It had been flowing for 12 hours, and a great pool of wasted water was ...

  11. Forests trashed for cash

    came under one of these categories. Despite this, the NSW minister for land and water conservation, ...

  12. Gunbalanya Open Day

    a conventional car rather than a four wheel drive and the water lapped at the bottom of the doors. There are ...