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1. ‘Scrap the desal plant’

   cost of ordinary water if the project went ahead. The project would line the pockets of corporations ... Rankin, and Greens MP Greg Barber also spoke. Barber told The Age on October 6 that water from the plant ... desalination plant be scrapped and the workers re-employed in sustainable energy projects. He said the water ...

2. Mine expansion delayed by Indigenous owners

   wants to double production at the mine and increase its life-span by 11 years. Water use is projected to ... gold and you can't drink cyanide. We must remember water is more precious than gold. Water is ...

3. Coalmine ban victory

   years, threatening to contaminate the Pages River and other water sources for local farmland. The ... potential impacts on local water resources would far outweigh any benefits of proceeding with the project.” ... has prevailed and... [I] look forward to the water issues being addressed in all future mining ...

4. Bhopal survivors win concessions in India

   survivors and an international solidarity campaign, the government agreed to provide clean water, medical ... care and rehabilitation to victims, as well as to release information about the water and soil ... drink water that is free of toxic chemicals, and receive basic medical care for their injuries." If ...

5. Flooding increases military contamination risk

   war games at Shoalwater Bay. The local water catchment is inside the training area. "June has ... no information. The Livingstone Shire Council has promised to test the water supply, but the ... expert, air and water monitoring and to research health problems being suffered by other communities. ...

6. 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 ...

7. Meeting demands action to save the Murray

   has been predicted that by 2020 Adelaide's tap water supplies from the Murray will be undrinkable ... for two days out of five. A recent water quality survey undertaken by high school students from the ... the Murray is water flow. The consensus of scientists and conservationists is that a minimum of 1500 ...

8. Stay in Dust

   water, because you cannot pay and organised screams shake their high rise walls fingers and fists rise ... out of the dust tired and worn, Emily joins the marches against privatisation against water and ... assassins said as they shot her. BY TAMARA PEARSON [Emily Lengola was an activist with Orange Farm Water and ...

9. Appropriate technology in Guatemala

   deforestation, there is a scarcity of water during the dry season. Where water is available it is heavily ... water pumps has to some extent solved the problems. Appropriate technologies such as wood-conserving and ...

10. Loose cannons

    "Meeting all the requirements." — Australian Water Services managing director Pierre Alla, describing ... operations of the private company's water treatment plant, blamed for contamination of Sydney water ...

11. Songs of the Blue Mountains

    Waters". Their work has now been recorded: one hour of "Songs of the Blue Mountains" for the ABC. ... "The Valley of the Waters, "Mountain Waters", "Learn all Their Songs", "Sweet ...

12. Technology for outback

    hot water facilities in Aboriginal camps in the north-west of Western Australia. The technology has ... "Kurivilla Krappers". Marin Anda, who designed the portable solar hot water heater for the project, ... also environmentally friendly. An evapotranspiration waste water disposal system has been developed as ...

13. NSW unionists could face jail

    established over the Water Board's use of non-union contract labour. Matters believes the case is ... minister at the time the legislation was passed. South Coast unions believe the Water Board wants to settle ... when no Water Board or other representative appeared to oppose the unions' case. September 30, ...

14. Toxic dump cover-up revealed

    the Queensland Water Resources report on the land-fill's impact on the Great Artesian ... Basin's water supply had "severely constrained and predetermined to some extent" his review of ... toxic material into rock layers and eventual flow into water supplies. People Against Toxic Chemical ...

15. Uranium scare in SA

    processed waste water. This has raised the local water table by 10 m to within about 45 m of the surface. ... The water is believed to have come from the surface retention system used to contain the tailings ...

16. Australia the deforestation champion

    soils and water resources and threatening the Great Barrier Reef. Deforestation rates increased 250% to ...

17. Colombia: Strike in Buenaventura ends in victory for residents

    sewage system, improved access to drinking water, a new hospital and a renewal project for the Marino ... extreme poverty; half of Buenaventura’s 400,000 residents have no public access to safe drinking water ...

18. Northern Territory buckles to federal pressure on gas

    land and water. She said those who rely on tourism, agriculture, pastoralism and fishing for their ... gas wells, water impacts and widespread industrialisation”. The Beetaloo Sub-Basin, 500 kilometres ... roughshod over communities and the Territory’s water resources.” The Don’t Frack the Territory group said ...

19. Anger at granting of new gas permit in the south west

    being forced to live in a gasfield. “The government is ignoring our right to protect our land, water ... and water from an invasive and unnecessary industry. “The department claims this permit is for ...

20. Ten new political albums to give you hope

    Jesus Christ, fresh from turning water into wine, re-elected coal-loving Liberal Party leader Scott ...

21. LGBTI groups call for Eurovision boycott

    and Roger Waters, the director Ken Loach and the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. “The spontaneous, ...

22. Memories of warmth and exploitation in Roma

    semi-surreal, beginning with the opening credits set against a backdrop of soapy water on a tiled floor. Overall ...

23. Billionaires’ blind optimism on world poverty?

    commons — land, water, forests, livestock and robust systems of sharing and reciprocity. “They had little ...

24. Peru's climate crisis ahead of UN gathering

    climate related disasters.” Already, as the glacial run-off dwindles, water reserves in Lima (a coastal ... desert city totally dependent on mountain water) are coming under growing pressure. A study on drinking ... water by the US-based National Academy of Sciences found: “About one in four Lima residents have no ...

25. PALESTINE: World's longest running injustice

    authorities, as are the basic requirements of life — water and food supply. In addition to controlling imports ... land. Water in the West Bank comes from aquifers, though 80% of it goes to Israelis. The other main ... water source, the Jordan River basin, is controlled by Israel and no water from there gets to the West ...

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