Plug the Pipe targets Brumby family farm
Environment Protection Authority chairman Mick Bourke’s comments came as plans by a water protest group to rally at Premier John Brumby’s farm near Bendigo were abandoned.
Speaking at a waste water conference in Melbourne, Mr Bourke was asked how long it would be before Victorians were drinking recycled water.
Golbourn farmers get zero water
Allocation Data The seasonal allocations for Goulburn-Murray Water customers on 1 Jul 2008 are  High Availability Water Share Change to High Availability Water Share Comments Murray 0% % – Broken 0% % – Goulburn 0% % – Campaspe 0% % – Loddon 0% % – Bullarook Creek 0% % – Further Information  Goulburn-Murray Continue Reading →
Failure of rice crop costs Riverina jobs
World rice prices have doubled in 12 months but that hasn’t helped Riverina growers. Australia has recorded its smallest crop due to a lack of irrigation water. The Riverina, NSW, is traditionally the country’s largest rice producer. But in the past season just 30 of 2500 growers planted crops and the final harvest was down Continue Reading →
Farmers look to recycled water
From Farm Weekly WA
The first phase of the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling (AGWR) and how to manage risk associated with recycled water will be highlighted in a paper to be presented at the annual national conference of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA).
The paper will be presented by Dr David Cunliffe from the SA Department of Health
Dr David Cunliffe says that there is a long history of using recycled water, particularly treated sewage, for livestock watering or production of pasture.
Farmers need time to reduce water use
Lucy Skuthorpe in The Land Farmers should be paid up front for the value of their water and be given three years to adjust to slimmer water sharing rules rather than have the government buying allocations over 10 years, according to Wentworth Group economist, Professor Mike Young. Professor Young told the ABC this week he Continue Reading →
Fishermen, farmers and scientists fear desal plants
By Kathryn Crisell in the Yorke Pensinsula Country Times
Plans for a desalination plant in Spencer Gulf to support BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion have raised fears, hopes and questions since late 2006 when YPCT (November 28, “New threat to gulf fish stocksâ€) first posed concerns from local fishers and marine biologists about the “unacceptable risk of ecological damage to the upper gulf and marine-based industriesâ€.