Category: Water

Water Matters Distribution List

admin /22 November, 2012

Water Matters Distribution List watermatters@ris.environment.gov.au 8:16 AM (1 hour ago) to watermatters Dear subscribers, Please find the link to the 23rd issue of Water Matters below. This issue contains information about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/watermatters/water-matters-nov-2012a.html Water Matters provides subscribers with information about the Australian Government’s water reform initiative Water for the Future. If you Continue Reading →

Government signs off on new Murray plan

admin /22 November, 2012

Government signs off on new Murray plan Date November 22, 2012 – 4:10PM Read later Tom Arup inShare Pin It Email article Print Reprints & permissions <iframe id=”dcAd-1-3″ src=”http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/adi/onl.smh.news/opinion/politicalnews;cat=opinion;cat1=politicalnews;ctype=article;sz=120×50;tile=3;ord=4.5330252E7?” width=’120′ height=’50’ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ allowtransparency=”true” frameborder=”0″> </iframe> Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke, at the National Press Club, has signed off on the new Murray-Darling Basin Continue Reading →

Bipartisan backing for Murray water amendments

admin /2 November, 2012

Bipartisan backing for Murray water amendments Updated Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:49am AEDT Photo: Provision for water adjustments passed by lower house (Jude Wilson: user submitted) Related Story: Gillard announces Murray-Darling plan changes Related Story: SA irrigators welcome Murray funds boost Related Story: New approach to fight Murray acidity Related Story: Murray plan fights the Continue Reading →

Murray plan fights the constraints of history

admin /22 October, 2012

Murray plan fights the constraints of history By Mike Sexton Updated 3 hours 5 minutes ago Photo: SA stubbornly defending its needs from the Murray (Audience submitted: Bernard Matson) Map: SA Speaking at the University of Adelaide recently, former prime minister John Howard echoed the lament of generations of politicians who have tried to govern Continue Reading →

Watermatters] Water Matters issue 21 now available [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

admin /3 October, 2012

Water Matters Distribution List watermatters@ris.environment.gov.au 4:46 PM (36 minutes ago) to ‘watermatters Dear subscribers,   Please find the link to issue 21 of Water Matters below.   This issue of Water Matters features articles about the Wetlands Australia and Wetlands and the Carbon Cycle publications, a new Aquatic Ecosystems Toolkit, a brief update from the Continue Reading →

Global water sustainability flows through natural and human challenges

admin /10 August, 2012

Evidence further suggests extra-terrestrial origin of quasicrystals Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:07 PM PDT Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. Scientists reveal that new, naturally occurring quasicrystal samples have been found Continue Reading →