Australia’s Water Market Sets Trading Record in 2008, Despite Restrictions
The water trade in Australia is growing quickly, but some fear that state restrictions will hamper river restorations.
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Idea Central: Collaborative Solutions to SE Australia’s Water Crisis
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Australia’s Adelaide: A Lesson for Urban Centers Facing the Global Water Crisis
Australia’s fifth-largest city, Adelaide, could see its 1.3 million inhabitants relying more and more on bottled water over the next year, according to local politicians. Mounting consequences of climate change and sluggish national political action have led to high salinity levels and depletion of wildlife along the River Murray.
Peter Gleick: Crikey! Real Water Conservation and Efficiency in Australia
Regular readers of this blog know my feelings about the potential to improve the efficiency of our water use. Besides being cheaper and more environmentally beneficial than new supply options, efficiency improvements are easier to find.
Fire Hot, Sky Blue, Australia’s Dire Drought Tests Journalists
A Struggle to Tell a Story Everyone Seems to Know
South Australia: Acid Murray River Declared Undrinkable
The Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation in Australia urged landholders along the lower River Murray to secure alternative sources of drinking water
Australians Watch Murray-Darling Water Levels Sink to Record Lows; Situation “Bleak,” Officials Say
May marks the season for rainmakers in Australia. As the month approaches, Aboriginal weather watchers look to blooming wattle trees, flitting native birds and flocking cockatoos for signs of rain. But this year, autumn arrives with a dire forecast. Prospects for the season look “bleak,” as inflows to the Murray River “hit record lows” in […]
Australia Summit: Droughts and a Verbal Heat Wave
As droughts are hot on Australia’s heels, Maude Barlow – the United Nations senior advisor on water issues – heated up the pressure on the country’s government on Tuesday at the 5th Annual Australian Water Summit. She criticized the Australian cabinet for its management of the deepening water crisis, saying that ordinary Australians and farmers […]
Digital Drought: Australia’s Future on Fire in Acclaimed Media Project
Australia’s drought remains severe, but the award-winning interactive drama project, Scorched, offers a searing reality check for Australians nationwide. The year is 2012 and Sydney, facing raging bushfires, is finally out of water. As politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens race to save their country, the project urges real Australians to join the not-so-fantastical fiction. Using […]
Responding to Australia’s water crisis: Idea Central, ground-breaking international online event for public and experts to have their say, find solutions
Carried by: CSRwire LONDON – March 18, 2009 – Circle of Blue, the international multi-media online news organization, and Imaginatik, the London- and Boston-based collaborative software firm, today launched Circle of Blue Idea Central — a first of its kind online global survey event that captures ideas from people around the world to help solve […]
Infrastructure Imminent: Has Australian Tinderbox Found its Match?
In fire-seared Australia, water is a matter of national security. The government of New South Wales agrees. In concert with public water corporation Actew, it is poised to announce changes to the way the nation flows, literally. According to the Canberra Times, Actew expects an announcement in two weeks that would allow the corporation to […]
Australian Aid Flows to Zimbabwe for Water, Sanitation and Health
Beleaguered Zimbabweans can look forward to at least $10 million from Australia – a country with a water crisis of its own. Less than a week after President Obama announced a renewed year of U.S. sanctions for Zimbabwe, Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith made public his country’s decision to reinitiate aid. Australia is one […]
