Global majority faces water shortages ‘within two generations’ Experts call on governments to start conserving water in face of climate change, pollution and over-use Share 195 inShare8 Email Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 May 2013 14.17 BST Jump to comments (27) Most of the areas where water will be scarcest soonest are in Continue Reading →
World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon Freshwater supply and water quality under pressure, warns UN secretary general on International Day of Biological Diversity Share 123 inShare4 Email John Parnell for RTCC, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 May 2013 12.20 BST Jump to comments (17) Woodland stream Continue Reading →
Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is under attack at the 17th round of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations underway in Lima. It is not just the cheap drugs enjoyed by Australia thanks to this brilliant scheme, it is the very question of national sovereignty. The Australian delegation is winning accolades around the world for its stand Continue Reading →
Dirty water turbidity at Mt Crosby water treatment plant. Photo: Supplied Directors-general of three state government departments have been called in to urgent meetings to discuss the threat which silt in the Brisbane River poses to Brisbane’s water supply.
The 2011 Queensland Floods report confirms the concerns of locals Diane and Mark Bruhn about the lunacy of the flood measures being taken by local and state governments. Published in The Generator last week they provided new evidence that they are bulldozing and burning, increasing the speed and ferocity of the floods and the subsequent Continue Reading →
Geoff Ebbs, Greens candidate for Griffith in inner-city Brisbane, appeared on 4BC yesterday discussing the economic madness of expending the national budget on coal infrastructure when the rest of the world is phasing out coal. The piece opens with John Gordon of Stop Brisbane’s Coal Trains discussing the huge volume of coal traffic through the Continue Reading →