Water

There has been a lot of rain in central Queensland over the last month. Water has been flowing over the Fairbairn dam spillway and the Nogoa River has flooded the town of Emerald with over 2,000 residents seeking emergency accommodation. The Nogoa … [Read more...] about Would Nathan Dam have Stopped Reef Flooding?

The Cooper Valley has been dumped on with exceptional rainfall over the past few days. Since Boxing Day, over 700 mm has been recorded in our portion of the catchment. Last night I was unable to collect three travellers that had booked onto the … [Read more...] about The Wet Season has well and truly arrived in the Daintree

I was at Burrima in the Macquarie Marshes yesterday for the launch of an important piece of research by Gillian Hogendyk: The Macquarie Marshes: An Ecological History, published as an Occasional Paper by the Institute of Public Affairs, September … [Read more...] about The Macquarie Marshes: An Ecological History

“Proposals for 4,000GL ‘overbank’ floods of the Murray River by the Victorian Environment Assessment Council beggar belief” said the chairman of the Australian Environment Foundation, Don Burke. Mr Burke’s comments came at the conclusion of the … [Read more...] about Victorian Environment Assessment Council Set to Flood Murray River Communities: AEF Media Release

Chris and Gill Hogendyk, with a bit of help from this blog, have been working hard to draw attention to the levy banks in the Macquarie Marshes starving the two nature reserves of water. It seems the mainstream media have finally caught-on with an … [Read more...] about Water Diversions in the Marshes: Finally a Mainstream Issue

This year’s World Water Week will see activists gather in Stockholm to discuss ways of getting clean water to the 1 billion people around the world who are currently without it. But, if water activists remain blinkered by ideology and continue to … [Read more...] about Let the Poor have Water, not Ideology: A New Paper from Alex Nash