US and Australian scientists will collect samples of deep sea coral to find specific clues in previous long term changes in the global climate hundreds of thousands of years ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/14/2445848.htm




Plans for a desalination plant at Port Stanvac in South Australia need improving due to an independent report finding the plant’s discharge could effect marine life.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/12/2445448.htm




A study compiled from scientist from around the world is bringing to light the vast detriment and potential detriment to the world’s coral reefs. This is due to global warming and fishing practises.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/10/2442687.htm




Details on construction in Orange, New South Wales, which once complete, will harvest storm water.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/08/2440326.htm




$1 billion offered by Australia’s government to spend on projects to boost urban water supplies. These projects can come from state governments, local councils or even private operators.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/07/2439856.htm




The South Australian Government has bought water from New South Wales and Victoria as a safety net for the population’s critical water needs in July 2009.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/05/2438710.htm




Details on the Australian Government’s successful bill which aims to appoint a national authority on water management.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/04/2437948.htm




Article by the president of the Victorian Farmers Federation Simon Ramsay which urges the Victorian Government to explore more options for water resources, in particular more dams for the state, which would benefit the agricultural industry. Mr Ramsay considers the government’s current plans expensive and detrimental.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/04/2437561.htm




Concern for Australia’s Great Artesian Basin due to potential growth demand for it in future, as well as climate change, and the need to have the massive water resource managed.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/03/2436258.htm




Due to the poor condition and contamination of Bingara’s current water supply in New South Wales, the state government has agreed to pay 67% of the cost of a new treatment plant to get it built.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/03/2436560.htm




Victorian farmers with low water allocations are eligible for rebates on their water charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/02/2435083.htm




Major problems with overuse of bore water in the Northern Territory, reducing the ground water table faster than rains can replenish it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/01/2434065.htm




Message from the the chair and chief executive officer of the National Water Commission of Australia for the nation’s fragile water supplies to be strengthened by dependable replenishing sources. The message considers recycled water as a viable option.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/28/2432123.htm




Good news from scientists revealing the Southern Ocean is still resilient in taking man-made carbon out of the atmosphere, despite climate change. The Southern Ocean sinks 40% of the world’s CO2.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/26/2430116.htm?section=australia




The Living Murray Initiative’s plan, to provide millions of litres of water to replenish the freshwater pools in Gulf Creek, has paid off. The pools, linked by fresh water are now being used by native animals.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/24/2428075.htm




Coral samples have given researchers from Canberra evidence that the changing climate will cause more frequent and brutal droughts in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/17/2422031.htm




Proposal by water expert Professor Mike Young for Australian State to tax how much water is flushed down their sewage drains.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/16/2420982.htm




Construction has begun on a 70-kilometre pipeline which is being constructed to reinforce Melbourne’s water supply. Article includes comments from pipeline critic.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/11/2416725.htm




Conservation group WWF says the Queensland Government must phase out targeted shark fishing on the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to preserve the species.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/01/2407583.htm




The South Australian Government says it is certain a desalination plant at Port Stanvac will go ahead, even though an environmental assessment of the $1 billion project is yet to be released.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/28/2402883.htm




The Victorian Opposition has endorsed a proposal to bolster Melbourne's water supply by capturing stormwater.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/27/2402772.htm




The New South Wales Government says it is confident that solar-powered water pumps will stop algal blooms from forming in Sydney's Warragamba Dam.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/26/2401389.htm




MP urges plans to be presented for millions of dollars which was originally set aside by the former Coalition government to deliver on-farm water savings.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/22/2398058.htm




Australian government arguments and statements on plans to spend money in the Murray-Darling area to support farmers and communities.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/21/2397517.htm




The Australian delegation calls for stronger wording to a resolution about the reason for whaling, which stopped the pro-whaling countries from signing that resolution. Environmental groups are upset as this has caused a loss to progress towards less whaling.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/14/2390884.htm




Waterway health improves in a New South Wales region which is under a scheme to clean up the area’s dairy farms.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/13/2389141.htm




The Water Minister Tim Holding says the State Government's plan to upgrade irrigation will work better than the Federal initiative to buy back farmers' water rights.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/22/2370925.htm




Indigenous groups are meeting in Albury in south-west New South Wales this weekend to demand what they call a 'cultural allocation' of water from the Murray River.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/20/2369781.htm




Land conservation group Bush Heritage Australia has paid $3.5 million for a property in western Queensland to protect Australia's most endangered freshwater fish.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/09/2359033.htm




Water management experts say there is growing concern that Australia's shrinking water resources will affect energy production.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/02/2353273.htm




Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has accused Victoria of stealing water from the River Murray.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/23/2344472.htm




South Australian irrigators have reacted angrily to the news that Queensland irrigators have extracted record amounts of water from the Murray-Darling.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/21/2342950.htm




The Federal Water Minister says reports that Queensland irrigators took a record amount of water from the Murray-Darling Basin last financial year show how vital it is that the system be governed by a central body.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/21/2342880.htm




The Federal Government is being urged to declare a buffer zone along Australia's coastline to ensure a safe approach is taken to future coastal development.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/21/2341936.htm




New satellite images show big storage dams and water diversions along the Murray-Darling Basin's last free-flowing river, the Paroo, in apparent breach of a moratorium designed to save the waterway.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/15/2336025.htm




A New South Wales Government report is predicting climate change could result in a 20 per cent reduction in available water in some areas by 2030.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/14/2335318.htm




The independent environmental monitor for the channel deepening project has accepted the Port of Melbourne's response to a breach of conditions last month.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/13/2334565.htm




Greens senator Sally Hanson-Young says claims that the Federal Government's new water management authority in the Murray-Darling Basin will be independent is a furphy.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/10/2330125.htm




Tasmanian scientists are examining the teeth of 100 whales and believe their research shows whaling impacts the mental health of other whales in the pod.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/10/2330123.htm




Tasmanian scientists are taking part in a multi-million dollar project to find out more about the ocean bed in waters off three Australian states.

www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/08/2328149.htm




A Perth-based clean energy company could start building a wave farm off the South Coast within two years.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/07/2326593.htm




A new report to the Federal and state governments has reaffirmed the dire conditions in the Murray-Darling Basin.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/20/2308851.htm




Melbourne Water says the city's storages could receive a boost this weekend, if enough rain falls and people continue saving water.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/19/2308466.htm





The New South Wales Water Department says about 200 gigalitres of water can be supplied to the ailing Murray from Menindee Lakes in the state's west in the next few months.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297176.htm




The National Farmers Federation says it will support drought assistance changes to be undertaken by the Federal Government, but only with its input.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/07/2295885.htm




The Federal Government has released a report into the link between drought and climate change, which it says will trigger major review of drought policy.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295733.htm




A Conservation Council report on management of water resources will be presented to a summit in Adelaide today.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/12/2272158.htm




Tasmania's Primary Industries Minister, David Llewellyn, believes concerns about drought-proofing the state are a beat-up.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/11/2271848.htm




Melbourne will stay on stage three-A water restrictions until the end of November.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/11/2271410.htm




Mismanagement of water catchments is being blamed for high levels of mercury in Victoria's dolphin population.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/06/2267603.htm




The Victorian Government has called for tenders from the private sector for the building and operation of the controversial desalination plant near Wonthaggi, south of Melbourne.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/04/2265409.htm




The Federal Government has announced a $1 million funding boost for a Hobart-based marine research and conservation centre.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/04/2265419.htm




South-east Queensland's dams could reach 40 per cent capacity, the level which will trigger a relaxation of water restrictions by Wednesday morning.






A new $2 million water tank that is part of the South-East Queensland water grid is is leaking like a sieve.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/30/2260298.htm




Brisbane Labor councillors say Lord Mayor Campbell Newman needs to do more to stop water being wasted through leaking pipes.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2259077.htm




The New South Wales Irrigators' Council has rejected the State Government's claims its water buyback will help farmers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/28/2257942.htm




Next week's New South Wales Budget will include a 40 per cent increase in funds to lift water flows to the drought-stressed rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/27/2256459.htm




A CSIRO study has found that a lower autumn rainfall pattern in south-east Australia is having dire consequences for the Murray-Darling Basin.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253652.htm




South-East Queensland residents have maintained their water-saving efforts using an average of 129 litres per person a day.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2254140.htm





The ACT Government has agreed to a yearly cap on the amount of water Canberra extracts from the Murray-Darling Basin.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2254359.htm




Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says people who choose to live in remote Queensland communities understand that many services are not available.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/21/2251632.htm




Federal Water Minister Penny Wong's advisers have visited South Australia's Riverland region to draw up a wish list of the state's irrigators for negotiations about the national water plan.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/19/2249175.htm




Sydney's desalination plant will be powered by a south-west New South Wales wind farm under what Premier Morris Iemma has called Australia's biggest green energy industry contract.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/13/2243677.htm




Queensland's Cabinet has approved an increase in water prices for south-east Queensland ratepayers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/12/2242361.htm




Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chief Graeme Samuel says there is now political will to bring about free and efficient water markets.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/12/2241807.htm




The Queensland Opposition leader says the State Government is wrong to put recycled water into south-east Queensland's dams.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/07/2238311.htm





A national conference has been told that the Federal Government needs to spend more money to buyback water from irrigators.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/07/2237909.htm




There are claims a creek in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is devoid of any animal life due to millions of litres of highly acidic water flowing into it from an old mine site.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/05/2235723.htm





The Queensland Opposition says a desalination plant on Bribie Island would provide water earlier and more economically than the Traveston Crossing dam.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/05/2235752.htm




Conservationists have backed the Queensland Opposition's water policy for the state's south-east.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/05/2236046.htm





A group of Australian researchers claim to have found further evidence that lower rainfall and reduced run-off in the south-east of the country are linked to global warming.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/02/2233524.htm




The Queensland Government says the finishing line is in sight for the south-east Queensland water grid.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2232031.htm




Water Minister Penny Wong says the Government's new $13 billion plan for better water management will help to secure Australia's water supply.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2230170.htm




Sydney Water has applied for a $20 increase to annual household water bills, in addition to a $233 rise granted by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal three weeks ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/23/2224973.htm





After endorsement from the 2020 Summit and the Federal Government, the push is now on to expand agriculture in northern Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/22/2224530.htm




Auditor-General Glenn Poole has criticised some of the tendering processes for south-east Queensland's water grid.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2223055.htm




Organisers of a rally at Lake Albert say a strong message has been sent to Wagga Wagga City Council to take immediate action to preserve the lake.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2222824.htm





The Toowoomba Regional Council says waste water from coal seam gasfields will not be a quick-fix to south-west Queensland's water shortage.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/20/2221956.htm




New figures show the average daily water use across south-east Queensland has gone up.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/18/2221212.htm





New South Wales Water Minister Nathan Rees says the State Government needs private sector investment to meet the state's future water recycling targets.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217771.htm




Melbourne households and businesses have been praised for saving 75 billion litres of water in the year since stage 3A water restrictions were introduced.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/12/2215236.htm





As it tried to carve out a deal on the Murray-Darling Basin, Victoria was telling any and everyone how well the state could manage its water.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/10/2213429.htm




Dredging at the entrance of Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne begins despite the protests.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/05/2208682.htm




Once the farmers and townsfolk in Queensland, NSW and Victoria have finished dipping into it, the once-mighty Murray River trickles across the parched expanse of South Australia to the sea.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23448325-11949,00.html




A cut-through agreement between the commonwealth and states provides for an independent authority to take control of the stricken Murray-Darling Basin and sweeping changes to management of the nation's most important river system.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23437866-5013871,00.html




Recycled and desalinated water will meet the needs of southeast Queensland, where the population is expected to double to six million in the next 50 years.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23437823-11949,00.html





The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has warned that the new national water agreement to take over the Murray-Darling Basin will be doomed to failure unless it is acted on immediately.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/
2008/03/27/2200219.htm?section=australia





The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is proposing an increase to the average household water bill of more than $200 a year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/27/2200487.htm





The Alice Springs Town Council will vote tonight on whether to install waterless urinals in public toilets to better suit the outback environment.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/25/2198778.htm





Power and Water is looking at introducing a system that uses ultraviolet light rather than chlorine to disinfect the water supply at remote communities in the Top End.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/24/2197307.htm




In a portent of how climate change could transform town planning along the nation's coastlines, the South Australian Supreme Court has ruled that predicted sea level rises are a valid reason to reject beachfront housing developments.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23360118-11949,00.html




This is what the lower reaches of the great Murray River have been reduced to: a barren, wind-blown dustbowl that threatens to poison an internationally renowned wetlands area and possibly the river system itself.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23339097-11949,00.html




Dam levels across the country have risen in the past year, but the Murray Basin remains in the grip of a big dry, and almost 70 per cent of Australia's farmland is still drought-declared.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23314971-11949,00.html




Water restrictions will remain in place in Melbourne at least until a planned desalination plan is completed in 2010, despite asharp drop in household consumption.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23314973-11949,00.html




The Tasmanian Government will spend $80 million to help "drought-proof" the island state as part of the biggest water development program since the days of hydro-dam building.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23222130-11949,00.html





The NSW Government has been accused of failing to take climate change seriously in the wake of a decision by Planning Minister Frank Sartor to approve a development on a flood plain.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23222125-11949,00.html




Labor has vowed it will ensure farmers receiving drought relief become better equipped to withstand future droughts.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23205382-11949,00.html




The Queensland Water Commission chair Elizabeth Nosworthy has officially declared the drought in the state's south-east corner over by detailing long-range water consumption measures and setting a threshold for when restrictions can be lifted. She said that when dam levels reached 40 per cent, the current level six restrictions will be relaxed.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23194565-11949,00.html




SWEEPING rains across the eastern states have filled dams and reignited debate about when to ease water restrictions. For the second consecutive week, Sydney's water supply has risen by 3per cent, reaching 64 per cent yesterday and prompting the NSW Government to announce restrictions would be reviewed when dam levels reached 70 per cent.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23178253-11949,00.html




Peter Garrett has given his final approval for a $1 billion channel deepening project in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23164220-2702,00.html




The CSIRO has found the contribution of the Ovens River to the Murray River in northeastern Victoria would be reduced by 13 per cent under its best estimate of climate change.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23105169-11949,00.html




She hadn't been seen for years and when she did arrive she was a little late and took a while to warm up, but the drought-breaking La Nina will stay around for a while yet. The Bureau of Meteorology yesterday confirmed the weather pattern had been the main factor behind the heavy rains in eastern Australia since November. All the computer models are predicting La Nina conditions until at least the middle of autumn.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23099609-11949,00.html




Queensland may be awash with floods but 2.3 million people in the state's southeast have been warned there is no end in sight to level-six water restrictions.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23094184-11949,00.html




Scientists have shrugged off political wrangling over control of Australia's strained river systems and kickstarted development of a $417 million network for measuring and monitoring national water resources.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23087177-11949,00.html




A monsoonal low that battered an inland town with the ferocity of a mini-cyclone and caused at least $12 million worth of damage across north Queensland was hailed by a senior forecaster yesterday as heralding a return to the traditional Big Wet. He said the weather that had dumped huge amounts of rain over vast areas of Queensland in the past week signalled the start of a pattern not seen since 1977, when drought-causing El Nino events began to become the norm. "This is the sort of weather we had right through the 1950s and through to the mid-1970s," he said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23064535-11949,00.html




Large areas of western Queensland were awash today as residents of inland towns prepared to sandbag their homes and businesses against floodwaters coursing downstream after rainfall brought by a monsoon low.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/
0,23739,23064453-952,00.html




Gold Coast mayor Ron Clarke has urged the Queensland Government to ease water restrictions on the coast, partly to counter the possibility of flood damage this weekend. The coast's main water storage, the Hinze Dam, has been overflowing for the past two days in the wake of the same weather system that triggered flooding across the border in NSW. There was little rain yesterday, but more falls are forecast for this weekend.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23025964-11949,00.html