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News - November 2009

www.theage.com.au - There's no room for a bulldozer

34 minutes ago - Pipeline water will be taken from regions where the water systems are struggling to ... I THINK it is noble that the Brumby Government is subsidising the ...

Farmer resents Brumby's 'vote-driven' water policy

1 hour ago - ... this north-south pipeline is functioning, nothing will happen,'' he said. ... Brumby divides the bush on water. Premier John Brumby is travelling badly ...

Are Melburnians getting ripped off?

A well-respected source of information on the international water industry - Global Water Intelligence - has released a report detailing costs of desalination plants worldwide.

Looking for a real Opposition in Victoria | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt ...

15 hours ago - Bracks and now Brumby have achieved NOTHING during there term in office for our ..... lack of water, the stupid NS pipeline, the cost of the desal plant as ...

Brumby lets ALP's standing slip in regional Victoria

46 minutes ago - Water policy is a vote-changer in rural areas and Mr Brumby's brusque attitude would have worried Labor's MP for Seymour, the north end of the pipeline, ...

Riverine Herald: Read Story

  
4 days ago - ... irrigators and businessmen who hatched the plan to construct the north-south pipeline. ... The government's own Northern Region Sustainable Water Strategy (draft) ... From the top down, John Brumby, Gavin Jennings and each and every ...
  

One vote each, the people ponder the state of the state of ...

1 day ago - ''I told him, 'Look mate, I don't vote for you, but that Brumby's the best Liberal ... Putting in a pipeline to take water from a dying river is another

VICTORIANS NEED WATER, NOT ENDLESS ANNOUNCEMENTS > Liberal ...

2 days ago - The current water levels are at 37.9 per cent. Ms Asher said the Brumby ... at the time water is supposed to begin flowing down the north-south pipeline. ...

Unleashed: State of emergency

10 hours ago - Historical water usage data from the ABS suggests that cultivation of this meagre ... is over three times the amount that the Brumby Government in Victoria is seeking to ... Goulburn River using a pipeline costing taxpayers $750 million. .... Surely it's not in the interest of the State of NSW to abuse the water ...

Rainwater Safe To Drink: Monash University Study

4 Nov 2009 ... That's the conclusion of a new study into the health of the more than one in 10 Australian households that now drink rainwater. ..

Fury over coal giants' water bid

VICTORIA'S coal-fired power industry is seeking a substantially bigger share of the state's water, telling the Brumby Government that plans to reduce carbon ...

Melbourne water storages get huge boost

23 hours ago - Water is expected to be flowing into Melbourne from the pipeline in February, while the desalination plant is not due to start operating until the end of ...

fishvictoria.com online forums :: View topic - Brumby, Holding and ...

3 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 16 hours ago
Brumby, Holding and Co decide, hey instead of letting the Wimmera region continue saving water as they have been doing really well, let them water there ...

Country News - McPherson Media Group

15 hours ago - It's bulldust that Brumby is standing behind country Victorians; ... in the Melbourne catchment and the water is running out to sea. Why couldn't all of our money that Brumby has spent on spin and wasted on the north-south pipeline have ...

www.smh.com.au - Perils of a bigger footprint

8 hours ago - AUSTRALIA is in the middle of a population boom, and Victoria is at its epicentre. ... including water, capable of sustaining a population of 35 million? ...

www.theage.com.au - Forests parched as water diverted

8 hours ago - Close to $90 million is set to be spent improving water penetration to a Red Gum forest that straddles either side of the Murray River west of Echuca. ...

What is contemptuous Wong hiding?

4 hours ago - Earlier, unrelated Stage 1 works were to generate water savings to service the pipeline to Melbourne. “Senator Wong has previously gone to great lengths to ...

Country News - McPherson Media Group

17 hours ago - The Coalition said it was opposed to the pipeline taking water from the stressed northern rivers to Melbourne and so voted it down in the Legislative ...