Productivity Commission releases draft report on water policy reform 29 Sep A renewed national water reform agenda is needed to tackle population growth and climate change, according to the draft Productivity Commission … Read more
One-in-100-year drought linked to deforestation, climate change 21 Sep South America’s Amazon and Nordeste regions are naturally prone to dry conditions, but a recent study suggests the drought of 2015-16 was … Read more
Farmers label $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin scheme a failure 7 Sep Queensland farmers have accused the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) of ignoring a loophole in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that allows … Read more
Sydney academic issues warning over lack of water quality data 28 Aug Sydney’s drinking water catchment is suffering from a serious deficit in water quality sampling sites, according to one co-author of the 2016 … Read more
Sydney Water removes one million plastic bottles from waterways 23 Aug Sydney Water is calling on customers to help curb the number of plastic bottles that end up in Sydney’s waterways each year.
Better practice catchment water quality planning for Australia 18 Aug By B Bycroft. First published in Water e-Journal Vol 2 No 3 2017.