News - May 2009
Vic bows to pressure on water trade | theage.com.au
Victoria's pariah status over reform in Murray-Darling river system mitigated as pressure mounted on State Government to relax controversial water trading ...
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1 May 2009 ... SPENDING on water projects for Melbourne is the second lowest among the country's capital cities over the past three years.
Irrigation farming drying up | The Australian
4 hours ago - The Living Murray program, funded by the Murray River states and the federal Government, has a program to purchase $50 million worth of water licences along ...
26 May 2009 ... Water use on farms drops again, Murray-Darling farmers irrigate less: ABS. Australia's farms dropped their irrigation water usage by almost ...
10 hours ago - River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald said the Government had not backed away from a late-June trigger point for the building of a weir near Wellington. ...
12 hours ago - “The only hope for the Murray-Darling Basin to become sustainable is to have one set of rules for the one river system. “All states must play by the same ...
1 day ago - KEVIN Rudd has bought the equivalent of half of Sydney's annual water usage in a $303 million deal with a NSW pastoral company aimed at returning water to ..
Water bills to rise to $1000 due to desal power option | Herald Sun
1 day ago - Premier John Brumby defended the move as being the best option but was unable to say when water charges would fall or when restrictions would be lowered. ...
1 day ago - Topher's Unpopular View - Brumby's North South Pipeline ... un-elected premier building a pipeline we voted against which takes water from people who dont ...
3 days ago - Ms Barlow said the pipeline plan — which is projected to bring to Melbourne a third of water ... in Northern Victoria — was the "worst thing" the Brumby Government could do. ... On-farm water use drops as drought bites Murray irrigators ...
3 days ago - Murray Irrigation Ltd is believed to be on the verge of selling $50 million ... taking in nearly 748000 hectares of farmland north of the Murray River. ...
6 days ago - Murray Darling faces economic crisis · Science providing a sound basis for water ... Climate change: running rivers dry · River animals' habitat shrinks ...
21 May 2009 - The first rescue attempt of the Murray River, the Living Murray ... crisis and future exports from agriculture along the Darling and Murray rivers. ...
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19 May 2009 - "I think it emphasises that the situation we're in in the Murray-Darling basin system is not just a crisis for the river," he said. ...
19 May 2009 - The Murray-Darling Basin has lost the equivalent of 400 Sydney harbours worth ... the magnitude of the drought crippling Australia's biggest river system. ... of major water crisis we could face under climate change," Dr Leblanc said. .
19 May 2009 - The Murray-Darling Basin has lost the equivalent of 400 Sydney ... space to assess the magnitude of the drought crippling Australia's biggest river system. ... of major water crisis we could face under climate change,'' Dr Leblanc said. ...
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19 May 2009 - WATER authorities will update Sunraysia irrigators on the water crisis in ... of the river are dwelling on good falls over the Murray-Goulburn catchments to ...
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17 May 2009 - must move away from
crisis-framed responses to dryness and adopt more long-term sustainable
... the
Murray-Darling Basin, for example. Government purchases of irrigation water entitlements should help support
river flows and
...22 May 2009 - Lower Murray water crisis worsens ... Coping if the river runs dry ... SA warned critical water needs not guaranteed from Murray ...
6 days ago - Unhappiness over Brumby Govt defunding of Reconciliation Victoria, .... UN water advisor calls Victoria's north-south pipeline "the stupidest idea I've come ...
21 May 2009 - North -> South Water Pipeline General Discussion. ... be better in the long run than what the Brumby Government is doing with it's North/South Pipeline, ...
21 May 2009 - The Brumby Government is right to call on all Victorians to save water, ... $4 billion on a "water" pipeline linking one dry spot in the state to another, ...
21 May 2009 - Claims of high levels of sourcing were used to justify building the North south pipeline to divert water from the struggling Goulburn Murray Irrigation ...
14 May 2009 - The debate in Victoria on city water security is shifting - lots of news in media on ... through the nose for destructive mega-projects like desal & north-south pipeline. ... “Why should I pay for the crazy, wild Brumby's water plan ? ...
13 May 2009 - I heard on the radio this morning Premier Brumby saying that if this pipeline is not constructed the people of Melbourne will be running out of water in 10 ...
13 May 2009 - “The Committee Chair has been hoodwinked by the Brumby Government, ... that will occur through the North South Pipeline taking water to Melbourne, ...
10 May 2009 - ... 5 Star also requires either a water tank that must supply water to toilets, ... City support for rural people over the north-south pipeline · General. Wednesday 21 January, 2009. Audit shows Brumby government needs to get cracking ...
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8 May 2009 - What John
Brumby's government is doing with the continued implementation of the north south
pipeline and other aspects of their
water policy is in every
...8 May 2009 - ... [Premier John] Brumby and [water minister Tim] Holding push ahead. ... Low rainfall in the north of Victoria has meant little water is being saved. The pipeline is supposed to take water saved as a result of conservation measures to ...
6 May 2009 - ... of water from the north-south pipeline next year to tide us over. ... Brumby's credibility on water will be harmed unless he can show by then that about ...
2 May 2009 - A report commissioned by Melbourne Water says the pipeline had been forecast ... Premier John Brumby says water saved through upgrades to rural irrigation ...
30 Apr 2009 - Or a North South Pipeline.A Western Pipeline into the middle And a Desal finishing up at a nuclear power plant.Here we have Water and an option for a Hydro ...
30 Apr 2009 - SPENDING on water projects for Melbourne is the second lowest among the ... pipeline, the Victorian Government spent only $163 a person on water ... "This analysis shows the shocking neglect of Melbourne's water needs by John Brumby, ...