Nearly half of the state’s biggest irrigators have made no effort to install meters contrary to new laws designed to prevent water theft,an audit has found.
Federal Water Minister Keith Pitt says the government remains determined to build new dams in the Murray-Darling Basin,rejecting comments from a leading researcher that climate change would reduce the likelihood that they would fill.
The Kimberley is transforming as cattle producers seek to drought-proof using “pivots” to irrigate huge circles of land. But this requires large-scale clearing.
All Australians should be outraged that the Murray-Darling Basin Authority told the CSIRO to effectively stick its expert scientific advice when preparing the Basin Plan.
The Productivity Commission has found governments could spend $10m a year to secure the same amount of water they’ll get from the costly Dungowan Dam.
A report has raised serious concerns about the government’s new National Water Grid and demanded greater scrutiny of spending on water projects.
The Menindee Lakes,1000 kilometres west of Sydney,need urgent protection to avoid another ecological disaster.
The NSW's independent water regulator is assessing more than 1000 dams,many involving potentially illegal earthworks,as it clamps down on water theft.
Governments must ramp up their responses to controversial water reforms to tackle climate change,lack of indigenous water rights and murky water markets.
Plans to clear 290 hectares of forest to make way for a concrete dam with the capacity of 6000 Olympic pools has outraged locals in one of Western Australia's most picturesque towns.
Irrigators have issued a stunning broadside to NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean,who they say is choosing environmental concerns over the interests of agriculture.