<?xml version="1.0" ?> <rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>AWA Breaking News</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsRss.aspx</link><description></description><item><title>Wivenhoe Dam report 'a fiction' as engineer grilled</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973365</link><description>
Wivenhoe Dam engineers have been accused of concocting a fictitious and self-interested report.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:43:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Airlifting under way in flooded north</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973364</link><description>
Thousands of people are being evacuated from northern NSW with helicopters.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:42:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gas boom boosts jobs</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973363</link><description>
The gas and coal export sectors have created more than 5,000 new jobs in Gladstone.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:41:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fears over wetland development threat</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973362</link><description>
An internationally significant wetland near Hobart is being threatened by development.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:39:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wetlands face development 'threat'</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973361</link><description>
An environment group says more needs to be done to protect wetlands from urban expansion.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:37:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dam engineer accused of fabricating flood report</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973360</link><description>
Queensland's floods inquiry has accused a dam engineer of making up a flood report.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:36:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Towns evacuate as floods reach peak</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973359</link><description>
Residents in northern New South Wales and Queensland's southern inland are preparing for record floods.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:34:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Water Matters newsletter released</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973353</link><description>
DSEWPC issued a Water Matters newsletter.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:21:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Advice rejected by Minister Burke</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973352</link><description>
Read the advice from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee to Minister Burke.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:20:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feral Fish go on the Rampage</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973351</link><description>
Introduced fish species such as carp and trout have been a major cause of native fish extinctions in the MDB.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:16:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jay prefers by-election politics</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973350</link><description>
Labor campaign material has demonstrated how ineffective for the Murray SA Labor has been.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:14:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wetlands project to water-proof the South</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973349</link><description>
Work is underway on a $30 million wetlands project in Adelaide. that will capture stormwater.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:12:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seqwater loads up on legal firepower</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973348</link><description>
Seqwater has stepped up its legal firepower and will maintain it followed its dam manual.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Huge dam releases 'fed most of flood'</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973347</link><description>
The Brisbane flood would have been contained in Wivenhoe Dam if it had been operated in accordance with its manual.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:08:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Great rivers come together</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973346</link><description>
In the driest and brownest of lands, this is the junction that matters most.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:06:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Study reveals irrigators' losses</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973345</link><description>
A report sets out the heavy financial losses suffered by northern VIC's irrigators.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:41:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Council faces waste water deadline</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973344</link><description>
Copper Coast Council to task over the Community Wastewater Management Scheme.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:39:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sewerage revamp for effluent recycling</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973343</link><description>
A $3 million upgrade of its sewerage treatment plant must proceed this year.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:35:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Survey Released</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973331</link><description>
An economic survey of irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:34:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Editorial: Desal issues still gushing</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973330</link><description>
Faulty valves are the latest problem at the trouble-prone Wonthaggi desalination plant.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:31:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New dam manual 'puts safety at risk'</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973329</link><description>
Wivenhoe Dam flood engineers won't need formal qualifications or need to be accountable.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:32:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Toxic river spill threatens drinking water</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973328</link><description>
China detained seven company executives after suspected toxic industrial waste polluted a river.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:25:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Murray Valley encephalitis</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973320</link><description>
A review of clinical features, diagnosis and treatment.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:09:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CSG royalties in States and Territories</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973319</link><description>
Including commentary from the Henry Tax Review on the use of royalties as a form of resource taxation.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:07:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Water quality, biodiversity and codes of practice</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973318</link><description>
This report examines important streamside management zone processes.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:04:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wivenhoe strategy not in 'official' log</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973317</link><description>
Wivenhoe Dam was in the wrong strategy at a crucial time before it ran out of storage capacity.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:01:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poor water quality at bay beaches</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973316</link><description>
People should be cautious at beaches affected by a possible algal bloom in Port Phillip Bay.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:59:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scientific experts examine CSG impacts</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973315</link><description>
An interim committee of scientific experts to look into the CSG and coal mining industries.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:57:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Talks focus on boosting basin communities</title><link>http://www.awa.asn.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=4294973314</link><description>
Initiatives could strengthen SA MDB communities.
</description><author>Australian Water Association</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:53:08 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
