The emails also show the state government has been involved with Melbourne Water’s response from behind the scenes,despite repeated insistence that the water authority’s inquiry is independent.
The WA government’s response to calls for a moratorium on logging the Carnaby’s black cockatoo habitat has been less than ideal,despite its own numbers forecasting a major decline in the species’ northern population.
Macroalgae is being used by Sydney Water as a way to cleanse the sewage water in NSW.
The controversial proposal is dead after the NSW government decided not to proceed with the project due to huge costs and environmental and heritage concerns.
Some brands boast their products are made from recycled plastics dredged from the ocean. But there’s little to stop them using that label for plastics picked up on land.
In the northern NSW town of Walgett,the tap water is too salty and smelly to drink,forcing families to spend up to $50 a week on bottled supplies.
Residents of Kyneton and Malmsbury after still without safe drinking water after a main burst,leading authorities to issue a boil-water alert.
Queensland’s two major water supply and flood mitigation dams need safety upgrades by 2035. Looming research could throw a spanner in the works.
The mine,about 30 kilometres outside Mudgee,is set to produce about 3.4 million ounces of silver a year,as well as zinc and lead.
The prospect of a lead mine 30 kilometres outside Mudgee has frightened parents,farmers and winegrowers in the regional hotspot.
If you cast your eyes around at cafe tables,your colleague’s desk or the perimeter of your boutique gym class,you might have noticed a growing trend.