Section of the Queensland Government’s Department of State Development website featuring information and helpful tools for businesses to evaluate how the level 5 water restrictions in South East Queensland effect them.
Queensland government restrictions on household and commercial water usage, featured on the Queensland Water Commission’s website, as a way to reduce water depletion.
Links to water restriction fact sheets, and household rebates and business incentives to save water.
Section of Sydney Water website providing mandatory water-use rules for businesses and residential areas in Sydney to implement during level 3 water restrictions. Also includes a section on certain business exemptions from these restrictions.
Information section of Victorian Water Industry Association website providing mandatory rules with regards to water use in businesses and residential areas during level 1 to level 4 water restrictions in Victoria.
Results from a study by the Total Environment Centre highlighting the problem of large amounts of electronic waste (e-waste) items building up in Australian landfills.
(ABC News, 12/12/08)
Great Barrier Reef will die by carbon, scientists say
Environmentalists and scientists stress that the Australian Government’s low emissions target has condemned the Great Barrier Reef to destruction And will impact the reef’s tourist industry. This is due to rising temperatures and ocean acidification causing wide-spread coral bleaching and coral disease.
(ABC News, 15/12/08)