Remote communities being poisoned by uranium
In the Northern Territory, the town water supplies of several remote Aboriginal communities are...
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Farmer backs floodplain harvesting to counter drought
Regulating floodplain harvesting will help mitigate the damage from more frequent floods and...
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Who Gives a Dam?
Parts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area are at risk of being flooded upstream if the Warragamba Dam walls were raised, but does that justify saving people living on the floodplains downstream?
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Ancient water to drain from farmland without ongoing joint management
Groundwater has been credited with “saving rural communities from collapse” but its potential for future drought-proofing depends on how successfully it’s managed.
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Bitter debate over Central West’s most precious resource
Central West residents are blaming the NSW Government, not irrigators, for “absolute mismanagement” of water resources.
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Joint land care and better water policy needed to manage drought
Community leaders and farmers agree that water and land management are the key to building resilience in the Central West, where recent rain has not been enough to end the prolonged drought.
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