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The Murray-Darling is not just a food bowl, yet the South Australian Royal Commission has found the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is failing its mission to protect the environment as well as irrigators.
Awe-filled learning unfolds as a kindergarten class, accompanied by educators, investigates snow and water with tools, toboggans and more.
Banking water minimises the impact of evaporation and means that water can also be recycled from various sources.
Plants can find it tough to get all the nitrogen they need, especially from Australian soils. But summer storms can provide an added boost.
While making small volumes of pure water in a lab is possible, it’s not practical. The reaction is expensive, releases lots of energy, and can cause really massive explosions.
Public confidence in the institutions in charge of the Murray Darling Basin has plummeted – with good reason.
Most of us get thirsty when we need to drink more water. But there are other tell-tale signs that not all is well.
Water supply systems weren’t designed to deal with altering weather patterns brought about by climate change. This needs to change.
Of Australia’s capital cities, Perth has the saltiest tap water, while Melbourne, Hobart, Darwin and Canberra have the least salty. And while all are within guidelines, the variation is striking.
Many African countries tend to mismanage their groundwater resources.
Research shows that when Americans are aware of the scale of food waste, and how much energy and water are used to produce food, they support measures to reduce the problem.
Logging in the Thomson Catchment could reduce water supply by the equivalent of 600,000 people by 2050.
Leftover lactose from cheese production shows early promise as a treatment that can help soils retain water and nutrients, making them more resistant to drought.
Smart roads in Africa could help reduce the impact of flooding and other disasters that affect rural communities.
Bombarding people with scientific information has little effect. Something else is needed to jolt us out of our current climate trajectory.
Ghana needs to deal with the underlying causes of floods and prepare people for them.
After declining for nearly a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is growing again. Climate change, which is disrupting weather patterns that farmers rely on, is a major cause.
Energy-efficient water supply is a wicked problem – and we might have found a way to solve it.
If you have to devote hours a day to collecting water, you miss out on education, a social life and other human rights.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
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Research Associate, Department of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of History, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, and Fellow of the Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University
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Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
