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1. Letters to the Editor

   workers rings very hollow when you look at industrial relations. Brent Howard Rydalmere, NSW Water crisis ... remain obsessed with the notion we can save enough water to cope with any future climate change. The sad ... no runoff whatsoever, conditions under which the severest water restrictions obviously have no ...

2. YEMEN: Mass protests greet 'reforms'

   inequality, bellowing environmental problems (deforestation, unsustainable water usage and dramatically ... In an arid country where there is virtually no surface water and the majority of agricultural land is ... irrigated with water pumped up for as much as one kilometre from bores, fuel pricing ultimately governs the ...

3. NATO's bombs cause environmental disaster

   that NATO missiles were beginning to contaminate the water supply for much of eastern Europe. "I ... warn you that Serbia is one of the greatest sources of underground waters in Europe and that the ... Also hit was a rocket fuel storage area, causing releases into the surrounding area and water ...

4. US: dangerous reuse of sewage sludge

   water run-off with the sewage. As a result, sewage sludge contains a strange brew of nutrients laced ... sewage sludge each year (dry weight, not including the water that carries it). Today about 16% of US ... also renamed itself — it is now the Water Environment Federation. The scientific literature on sewage ...

5. The dangers of an urban Pacific future

   future. Unsafe drinking water, polluted lagoons, spreading disease and massive loss of topsoil are already ... water is piped from streams considered unsafe. In Kosrae, 70% of houses have poor drainage. In Pohnpei, ... a rise in the water table and thus surface flooding which will make certain methods of waste disposal ...

6. Trees obscuring the forest?

   Conservation Foundation, got right into the political realities of logging in water catchments. He said that it ... is easily proven that the value of the water lost is greater than the profit from the logging. ... Further, the timber industry takes large volumes of water and pays nothing for it. I was sure our ...

7. Not coal seam gas but renewable energy

   gas — that require policy to address existing projects — include possible water, air and environmental ... cities; water catchment, supply and storage areas; farmland; and other environmentally significant areas. ...

8. Socialist councillor answers One Nation’s lies: ‘We need the politics of hope’

   waters — itself an illegal act of piracy — before handing them over to the very people they are trying to ...

9. Ecuador: 2 million lifted from poverty since 2009

   security; health, water, and food; as well as housing and living environment. “Poverty is a multidimensional ...

10. Western Sahara: Appeal launched to assist flood relief in refugee camps

    and medicine. Flood water must also be removed and infrastructure rebuilt to avoid disease, ... contamination of water sources and buildings collapsing. An early assessment by the Saharawi Red Crescent found ...

11. BP's Great Australian Bight oil drilling plans rejected

    said: “BP wants to drill for oil in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight and submitted an ... climate change. “We should not be opening up new oil precincts in pristine waters when we are hurtling ...

12. Alliance formed to fight BP

    Kokatha people and the Clean Bight Alliance Australia. BP wants to drill four deep-water exploration wells ... Mirning and Kokatha people and the Clean Bight Alliance Australia. BP wants to drill four deep-water ...

13. First Nations vote for treaty

    land acquisition legislation and funding; and • Fresh water and sea water rights. Like the article? ...

14. NTEU staff strike, picket at UWS Parramatta

    positive result. According to an NTEU statement, "UWS management is aggressively trying to water down ... aggressively trying to water down the rights of staff. Photo: Jim McIlroy. News ...

15. Seaspray locals condemn fracking ban loophole

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

16. Government spin masks real agenda on CSG

    would have put into effect the election promise by O’Farrell to ban CSG operations in water catchment ... CSG development in drinking water catchment areas. As the demonstrations in Bentley showed just days ...

17. United States: Green groups stand with Utah ‘land defenders’

    in north-eastern Utah. This would threaten local land and water, as well as contribute to the global ... air, water and wildlife,” said Valerie Love a No Tar Sands campaigner for the Center for Biological ...

18. Pacific Climate Warriors tell Australia to cut emissions

    impact in the Pacific Islands. On some islands, seawater has contaminated fresh water aquifers. ... a chance of keeping our islands above water. What we reap now is what our children will sow in the future.” ...

19. Townsville protests threat to Great Barrier Reef

    emerged from under the water and made their way to the beach to join the rally on land. A separate rally ... are listed as a nationally important wetland and one that, if healthy, provide an important water ...

20. Fracking and dredging projects halt in north Qld

    unlimited access to water and potential contamination of aquifers as “unacceptable”, saying that it must be ... “stopped at all costs”. “That water is needed for people, for farming, and for the ecosystem, not just now, ...

21. Good news (for a change)

    species, spread weeds, cause erosion and damage our important water catchments. “This is a victory for ... threat to public health, water resources, air and the natural environment. On May 4 the court ordered ...

22. Protests against BP’s plans to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight

    first well, called Stromlo, is expected to start drilling in October next year in water about 2.2 ... concerned about pollution and disturbance of habitats in pristine waters in the bight. Wilderness Society of ...

23. Briefs: Guatemala river 'ecocide'; Peru mega-mine opposition; Native Americans resist mining land grab

    intensive crop grown as a monoculture. “The main impact is water pollution, because these people live off ... the river, use the water for drinking and for personal hygiene, as well as feeding themselves with the ...

24. NSW Coalition shoots down gas reform bill

    unconventional gas industry, while repeating the lie that it could co-exist with agriculture and pristine water ... including Sydney’s water catchments, the Northern Rivers and the catchment area for the Great Artesian ...

25. Oakdale residents angry at CSG mining plan

    Dam water catchment area. The meeting heard from four speakers: Jai Rowell, NSW Liberal member for ... are needed for the project to be profitable?”, “How will you dispose of toxic water during ...

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