Australia’s emerging green hydrogen industry requires a secure supply of high-quality water. Competing demands for this scarce resource mean careful planning is needed to meet all water users’ needs.
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Australian politicians have a history of opting for high-cost, high-emissions desalination projects. The Queensland government is still wary of using the largely untapped resource of recycled water.
New regulations for protecting water resources during oil exploration are inadequate and should be reviewed.
We need a radical rethink of water resource planning. Strategies should include reusing water and moving water physically to water-scarce areas.
South Africa’s dams are overflowing but the country is still facing water supply challenges.
Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
Long before climate change was evident, California began planning a system of canals and reservoirs to carry water from the mountains to drier farms and cities. It’s no longer enough.
Herat is home to an India-built dam that provides water for drinking, irrigation and bathing for much of western Afghanistan. If the Taliban control that water, they control the population.
As rivers run dry in the Rocky Mountains and the West, it’s easy to wonder where all the snow you see on mountain peaks goes. Some of it ends up in the air, but researchers aren’t sure how much.
It’s an ecological disaster, but my research shows we should not lose hope.
Treaties are needed to govern water resource allocation in the Nile basin region. For this to happen it’s critical to have accurate data on how much water there is.
Fracking in Botswana could have an impact not only the country’s groundwater, but also that of Namibia and South Africa.
Trends across the different rainfall zones can be linked to changes recorded for large-scale climate systems.
A court victory by an NGO against a South African municipality has laid bare the red tape and misgovernance that often burdens the process of issuing water licenses.
Tourism ventures in a water-stressed region like southern Africa need to balance the needs of guests and staff with the needs of surrounding communities.
Despite more rainfall, devastating hot and dry spells are projected to become more frequent in the Upper Nile basin in the future.
The ‘New Bradfield’ scheme seeks to revive a nation-building ethos supposedly stifled by bureaucratic inertia. But there are good reasons the scheme never became a reality.
Government leadership is needed to manage the aquifer as a system for all, including environmental services, rather than for the powerful few.
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.
If you want to live like a local when on holiday, you should defecate like one.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Professor, Aquatic Ecology and Director, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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