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1. Save the Williams River!

   (TWS) community campaigner Justin McKee told �鶹��ý Weekly Hunter Water Corporation said the dam ... "smaller-scale water management measures, such as the installation of rainwater tanks and recycling of storm ... water". One of the concerns of the Save the Williams River campaigners is that the dam will reduce flows ...

2. Poisoning Kakadu

   some time and turns water it comes into contact with acidic. Acid drainage has been widely documented ... result in ground water and creek water contamination. It may take a few years, but gravity and erosion ... wild water river rating. It flows straight to Kakadu National Park and joins the magnificent Magela ...

3. Radioactive waste threat to Kakadu

   the Northern Territory, announced on March 9 that it intends to release radioactive water into nearby ... Supreme Court on March 16. ERA argues that the release of contaminated water from Retention Pond 2, for ... the water is not only safe but is guaranteed to reach the ocean." The minister caused further ...

4. Rally to save harbour site

   on Harris Street to Pyrmont Point to demand that the state government save the former water police ... water police presents a once-only opportunity to create much needed high quality green, usable, safe, ... protect the former water police site. A petition, containing 6000 signatures, requesting that the site be ...

5. 3-5°C rise now ‘locked in’ for the Arctic

   species. This is because cold water can hold more dissolved carbon dioxide, while melting ice spreads the ... acidic. The more acidic the water, the more energy Arctic corals, molluscs, sea urchins and plankton must ...

6. Labor votes for Coalition’s billions in tax cuts for the rich

   affordability crisis, an ageing population, entrenched poverty among people who are unemployed and eye-watering ...

7. Adani’s claims to have secured finance questioned

   billion, consisting of $2.05 billion for the coal mine and associated airport, road access, water, sewage ... mine can begin, including: 1. Federal approval for Adani’s proposed water scheme, involving pumping ... 12.5 billion litres of water a year from the Suttor River to the mine. The government has delayed its ...

8. If war breaks out with Iran, it won’t be an accident

   waters surrounding Iran — a possible pretext for an attack. These are serious escalations. Even more ...

9. Protestors tell AGL to stop fracking

   has failed to provide evidence it is permitted to store waste water at a farm site near its CSG pilot ... field in Gloucester. It had been allowed to mix the produced water, a by-product of the fracking process ... which is notoriously high in salts, with irrigation water. That permit expired in April and it seems ...

10. Sewerage reform: concrete sustainability ideas

    speaking at public forums in NSW earlier this year, warned that Australians are extracting water from ... not capture statistics about water usage in an acceptably scientific way. While some groundwater ... potable mountain water by flushing it out to sea. While our current approach is unsustainable, proposals ...

11. Thousands to walk Sea Cliff Bridge to stop coal seam gas

    Water”, and is calling for a moratorium on the coal seam gas (CSG) industry, a Royal Commission into CSG ... “Residents have organised this action because we’re concerned about the contamination of our drinking water ... Authority Special Areas. “Coal seam gas mining always involves drawing contaminated water out of the coal ...

12. Wetlands fall prey to salt, says CSIRO

    Science and Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Water Resources, pointed to rising water ... quick or easy. It would take decades, maybe even a century, for ground water pumping to have much ... Murray", he said. Studies are beginning to reveal that planting trees to stem rising water tables at ...

13. Indian villagers evicted for dam

    waters rather than leave their homes. On June 14, police brutally beat a 17-year-old woman as they ... little water. The project's chairman, Sanat Mehta, says the dam is the only way to provide drinking ... water to drought-prone Gujarat and its 13 million inhabitants, but environmentalist Shekhar Singh says ...

14. Strike over redundancy packages

    Water Supply department have struck over the state government's refusal to extend conditions ... increases in the cost of water. The population should brace itself for the British experience. There, water ... costs trebled and water rationing was introduced after the private sector took over the provision of ...

15. Join the climate rebellion

    other (important) issues muddy the water, and those running the show have too much skin in the game.  ...

16. Open letter to Australian government: No war on Venezuela, lift the sanctions

    medicines, water pumps and spare parts for its oil industry. Despite the Maduro government’s spending on ...

17. Hundreds of academics declare support for Extinction Rebellion

    years, and continue to play, in maintaining species, and caring for the land, water and air.  We ...

18. A true people’s artist

    around inner Sydney and am seduced and captivated by its beauty and its light, its water and its air.  “I ...

19. Project Life: Cuba prepares for climate change

    construction of water treatment plants and the promotion of environmentally friendly agricultural practices are ... effort to mitigate the impact of drought in the province, the National Institute of Water Resources has ... undertaken, among other projects, the construction of several water treatment plants in the municipalities of ...

20. Oil company to drill off Newcastle

    testing in the waters off Newcastle poses an unacceptable risk for ocean habitat, marine wildlife ... intervene and ban this risky activity from the waters off Newcastle and elsewhere in the state waters. Our ...

21. Mandatory detention: A history of bipartisan cruelty

    rescued a group of Hazara asylum seekers in international waters between Indonesia and Australia. The ... Australian immigration minister and told they were not allowed to enter Australian waters. The captain was ... without running water and little food. To this day there are still hundreds of people in offshore ...

22. Community calls for a halt to Santos gas 'exploration' in Narrabri

    ecosystems; when it plans to dump waste water into Bohena Creek; how it will monitor the creek for ammonia in ... particular, and its plans for managing waste water in extreme weather events. It also wanted more information ... about the company's produced water management system, groundwater monitoring and waste management ...

23. NSW deserves better

    emissions, raising the core temperature of cities and ensuring precious rain water is ushered out to sea, ... mismanagement of water licences, New South Wales is sorely hurting and is in desperate need of care. It does not ...

24. Nuclear power and Australia’s culture wars

    challenges in terms of the storage and transport of nuclear waste, and use of water”. Exponentially rising ...

25. In Photos: Mexico Commemorates Centenary of Zapata’s Assassination

    the power plant poses a risk to scarce local water resources, and have argued the government is ... recently assassinated by for the same cause [as Zapata] – for water and life. It’s the same fight,” Gaja ...

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