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A new study of dairying in Canterbury shows previous estimates vastly underestimate the impact of intensive farming. A 12-fold reduction in cow numbers could be needed to meet safe water standards.
Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
When plants moved from living in water to land, they had to adapt. How that happened can help address food security.
A draft plan for Sydney’s water supplies includes expanding desalination and potentially adding highly treated sewage to drinking water. All options must be on the table as the climate warms.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
‘Hyperscale’ warehouses filled with computer servers use water for electricity and cooling.
A new book says Australia’s 20-year water trading experiment is sucking hundreds of millions of dollars each year out of the Murray-Darling Basin and directing water away from productive land.
Gauteng citizens need to know the uncomfortable truth: for the next six years, their water supplies will increasingly have to be restricted.
Pipelines, dams, gadgets: does water management really need to be all about control and power? Adopting less masculine ideas and working with nature may be more prudent.
With fewer people commuting, home water use changed radically overnight in March 2020.
Nile communities carefully monitored and recorded the river’s flow. Centuries later these records are still being used by water resource managers around the world to analyse unpredictable river flows.
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It won’t be easy to get the 11 countries in the basin to agree to a plan that avoids chronic water shortages in the future. Good information sharing and technical cooperation are critical.
The damage mining causes to Sydney’s water supplies is unsustainable, and the law has failed to stop it.
Given long-term forecasts for growing urban populations and an increasingly variable climate, local authorities will have to think about how best to encourage people to conserve water.
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The main reason for the growth of the informal water market is government failure to deliver adequate public services.
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.
Salt storms are an emerging threat, as Lake Urmia dries up and exposes huge salt marshes.
Despite previous threats by Egypt of military action, a war of over the Nile waters is not a serious possibility.
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Fellow, Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University
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PhD candidate, RMIT University
