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  1. Lock the Gate's call to country

    and the backdrop to all our hopes and dreams. It is a place where fresh water is our saviour, mateship ... safe. They want to under-mine our water catchments, digging under creeks and rivers, mining for both ... coal and gas in the drinking water supply area for 4.3 million people in Sydney. They want to drill and ...

  2. India: Commonwealth games brings homelessness and debt

    have been felled. Rain water drains have been covered. “The Games Village has been built on the flood ... plains of the River Yamuna, causing a drop in the ground water table in Delhi. The river bed is ... “Dengue and water is strongly related. Delhi is already dug up because of the games and it is also raining ...

  3. Ecuador: Mining, debt and indigenous struggles

    consequences of a number of proposed new laws — including laws relating to mining, water and the introduction ... chernobyl" after 18 billion gallons of polluted water were released into the water system by oil-giant ... needs to first pass a food sovereignty law, a water law and a biodiversity law. Then we can have ...

  4. Riding inflation, frozen wages

    water and sewerage (14.1%) and electricity (11.4%). House prices also rose by 1.1%. Inflation has risen, ... corporatised government water and electricity providers have increased prices for households, to maintain ... profit margins. At the same time these utilities continue to offer cheap electricity and subsidised water ...

  5. Public housing 'reforms' bring more hardship

    charged for water use, an unfair practice as tenants have no control over the maintenance of leaking taps ... or water-saving devices and many do not have individual water meters. Tenants without meters will be ... charged for weekly water usage based on the total water use of all tenants divided by the number of ...

  6. Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis

    tradeable carbon emissions or water use rights, can provide financial incentives for corporations or ... the increasing shortage of water. The NSW government's solution is to commission a $1.9 billion ... a quarter of a million more cars on the road. Yet global warming is a major cause of Australia's water ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. CHILE: Gold mine protested

    their currently clean water source, along with the significant problem of large dust plumes released by ... "The air we breath, the water we drink and the land we cultivate have more value than the gold coveted ... can pick up and move", said OLCA's Lucio Cuenco. "It's part of a water basin, and ...

  9. Our Common Cause: There is a real election on in Western Australia

    proposal to build the world's longest canal to divert water to Perth from the Kimberley. With ... Perth's dam capacity at around 29%, opposition leader Colin Barnett hoped to turn fears of a general water ... little to no studies) and serious questions are now arising over the real purpose of drawing water from ...

  10. Rally to save native forests

    are severely impacting on water supplies. In undamaged forested catchments, water percolates slowly ... through soils and swamps, providing a steady supply of filtered water to groundwater and streams, even in ... starves the soil, streams, lakes and other vegetation of their "normal" water supply. Given ...

  11. Residents fight Collex waste dump

    inevitable that toxic chemicals will leach into water tables. The area around the mine is part of the ... catchment area for Warragamba Dam, which supplies the bulk of Sydney's drinking water. The NSW ... Municipal Corporation. The Vivendi company supplies water to the city of Chennai, much of which comes from ...

  12. Report condemns dams' environmental impact

    financial barriers limit the adoption of alternatives such as wind and solar energy, recycling, local water ... South African president Nelson Mandela, the chairperson of the World Water Forum 2000, United ... San Roque in the Philippines, Bujagali in Uganda, Ralco in Chile, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, ...

  13. CISLAC responds to Salvadoran quakes

    to the third quake but, more importantly, international relief agencies report shortages of water ... landslides. Damage to social and productive infrastructure is enormous, with communications, water and ... water shortages caused massive price hikes in what little was available (with one litre of bottled water ...

  14. SRI LANKA: People must unite to bring about peace

    agricultural extension and seed production) be withdrawn. Now the World Bank says that irrigation water must be ... measure to bring this about, it said, would be to charge farmers for water rather than supplying it free. ... The government has accepted this proposal and adopted a new national water policy. It intends to put ...

  15. World's coral reefs in peril

    ecosystems. Coral is a type of animal called a polyp which eats drifting zooplankton. They filter water and ... process calcium and other minerals from sea water. Their enormous colonies can last for thousands of years ... reef destruction range from water pollution and fishing practices to climate change and tourism. ...

  16. ANC social policy follows World Bank advice

    sufficient to build a tiny hut, often without internal water and sanitation, and developments consisting of ... intensifying municipal water and electricity cut-offs, the increasing privatisation of local services (and his ... in late 1994. Water minister Kader Asmal earned the wrath of unions for his privatised rural water ...

  17. Uranium and land rights

    amounts of water from the Great Artesian Basin. The Beverley and Honeymoon mines in SA have also been ... leeching involves pumping sulphuric acid into the water table to leach out the uranium. Once the uranium is ... extracted, the contaminated solution is pumped back into the underground water basin. In countries where this ...

  18. Homeless Aborigines take action

    outskirts. In July they were evicted and moved to Fish Camp, under the airport flight path. There is no water ... supply, sewerage or electricity. Water is obtained from the service station, a 20-minute walk away. Now ... However, DCC refuses to provide water, roads, park maintenance or garbage collection, because it is ...

  19. Sanctuary victory: 'beginning of the end for whaling'

    originally proposed by France in 1992, was to include all waters circling the Antarctic beyond 40 degrees ... was necessary to exclude Latin American territorial waters. Kelman explained to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that ... Chile and Argentina will not allow whaling in their territorial waters even though they asked that these ...

  20. Write on

    give. Stephanie Wilkinson Coordinator, Australians Against Executions Seven Hills NSW Water reuse ... Friends of the Earth Water Catchment Collective is undertaking research into reuse of grey water in the ... home. This includes home built and commercial grey water systems, sewerage recycling systems, composting ...

  21. Environmental disaster shuts down Ukrainian city

    Ukraine would be without clean water supplies, and the economic losses — not to speak of the environmental ... has had to be virtually shut down. To limit the flow into the sewerage system, the city's water ... Water is now being released from reservoirs to increase stream flow, and compressors are being used to ...

  22. Liberals plan cuts, corporatisation in ACT

    privatisation or cuts. They include: the corporatisation of ACT Electricity and Water (ACTEW) by July 1, 1995; ... enterprise, corporatisation can proceed to a full privatisation. The privatisation of water in Britain has ... meant that 10 companies now provide water. However, in the first four years, water charges rose three ...

  23. Unions and the green movement

    Greenpeace, but in September Melbourne Water (the new name for the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board) ... even had a screaming headline: "Dioxin: less deadly after all". Melbourne Water has 5800 ... were about 16 million litres of contaminated fire-fighting water to dispose of after the fire. In the ...

  24. After the cyclone: rebuilding in Bangladesh

    by the bank. "The stagnant salt water polluted with carcasses and dead bodies has already become ... water purification works and pumping saline water from wells. One of the first jobs of the medical teams ... to withstand flood waters, and capable of holding 1000-2000 people. "... there are three ...

  25. The seven deadly myths of privatisation

    against state government moves to privatise gas, electricity and water utilities, presented the following ... paper on the British experience of gas, electricity and water privatisation. The paper has been slightly ... (SEC), Gas and Fuel Corporation and Melbourne Water. I want to consider seven major arguments put by ...

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