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QUEENSLAND – A remote northwest Queensland community has made an urgent plea for reliable power and water. Urandangi is 260km southwest of Mount Isa and has a population of about 60, which fluctuates with the movement of people across the nearby Northern Territory border. The town’s average summer maximum temperature is 38C but there is […]
NEW SOUTH WALES – New figures released yesterday show more than 48 per cent of the state is drought-declared, up from 43 per cent last month. Another 24 per cent of the state is marginal. Opposition spokeswoman Pru Goward says drought subsidies and water restrictions are not long-term solutions. Read more here. Source: ABC News […]
Freshwater is the ultimate renewable resource, but humanity is extracting and polluting it faster than it can be replenished. Rampant economic growth — more homes, more businesses, more water-intensive products and processes, a rising standard of living — has simply outstripped the ready supply, especially in historically dry regions. Compounding the problem, the hydrologic cycle […]
Environmentalists have long warned about the crisis in nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Water, of course, is the ultimate renewable resource—it falls from the sky—and therefore has been of less concern. But where and when rain falls, and what happens to it after it hits the ground, are crucial in determining the health and prosperity […]
Freshwater is the ultimate renewable resource, but humanity is extracting and polluting it faster than it can be replenished. Rampant economic growth — more homes, more businesses, more water-intensive products and processes, a rising standard of living — has simply outstripped the ready supply, especially in historically dry regions. Compounding the problem, the hydrologic cycle […]
Environmentalists have long warned about the crisis in nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Water, of course, is the ultimate renewable resource—it falls from the sky—and therefore has been of less concern. But where and when rain falls, and what happens to it after it hits the ground, are crucial in determining the health and prosperity […]
ADELAIDE – Water Minister Penny Wong has signalled the government’s goal of moving beyond water restrictions in Australia with a long-term plan to tackle infrastructure. After years of rules and regulations on when homeowners can turn on a hose, Senator Wong says she wants to work with the states to introduce measures that will end […]
MELBOURNE – Australian grape growers reckon they are the canary in the coalmine of global warming, as a long drought forces winemakers to rethink the styles of wine they can produce and the regions they can grow in. The three largest grape-growing regions in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, all depend on irrigation […]
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — Adelaide is at risk of relying solely on rain to fill depleting reservoirs amid warnings the city’s water supply situation is at its most critical. The State Government yesterday confirmed Adelaide has only 47 days’ supply – about 24 gigalitres – to pump from the River Murray from a 201-gigalitre “critical human […]
Melbourne, Australia is likely to stay on water restrictions for another three years. Water Minister Tim Holding said it was “highly probable” the city would be on water restrictions until the Government’s major water projects came on line.With the north-south pipeline not due to be operational until the end of 2010, and the massive desalination […]
AUSTRALIA, Feb. 28 (ABC News) — The Federal Opposition’s environment spokeswoman says the Rudd Government’s plans to buy water from Murray irrigators will threaten the industry.Read more here.
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
