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Water in Sydney is far cheaper than in Melbourne, and residents take full advantage of it.
Any policies and interventions around water management can only really be successful if women are included.
Decision making on water infrastructure in peri-urban areas is challenging. But lessons have been learnt from a water project in Mozambique.
Cape Town’s draft strategy on water supply is out for comment, but important elements are missing from it.
Cities relied entirely on conserving and recycling water to get through the last big drought. We now have desalination plants, but getting the most out of our water reserves still makes sense.
Sydney and Melbourne are bringing desalination plants back on stream and Adelaide plans to increase its plant’s output. Perth depends on desalination. But is it the best way to achieve water security?
Neither of the two federal investigations into fish deaths in the Darling River include any Indigenous representation.
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.
Outdated water permit systems are threatening food security on the continent. Here’s what can be done.
South Africa is a water stressed country but crisis point can be avoided.
Footprints get people thinking about their own impact, but for water the analogy simply doesn’t work.
Water and energy use are becoming more efficient, which is good news for both the economy and the environment. But Australia has yet to realise the value of national environmental accounting.
Small solutions done properly can play a huge role in dealing with water scarcity.
Residents of a small Victorian town realised that delicious water can be a curse as well as a blessing, when they lost a legal battle to stop a local farmer shipping groundwater to a nearby bottling plant.
World Water Day shines a light on the importance of safe, clean drinking water, but a new report finds Canada’s freshwater systems are under stress.
Perth is looking at recycling all its sewage in the city’s future water supply. But many Australians’ drinking water already contains indirectly recycled treated sewage.
Nature based approaches to solving water problems originated in Europe and don’t take into account Africa’s huge infrastructure deficit.
There are measures in place to manage Day Zero and beyond. Models show that these will not work.
Day Zero will be the start of active water rationing when taps will be cut off and people will have to go to collection sites.
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