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16 Mar 2023
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21 Jul 2022
Experts say city’s expansion has put more people at risk because homes are being built on flood-prone land.
5 Jul 2022
We’ve known about the risk of floods to the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley for a long time. Yet successive state governments have failed to properly mitigate its...
29 Jun 2022
SECRET documents reveal the NSW Water Minister has ignored the warnings of department staff about proposed changes to the state's floodplain harvesting...
22 Jun 2022
Professor Jamie Pittock says there are much better options to secure water for towns in the Lachlan Valley than raising Wyangala Dam.
22 Jun 2022
Scientists are urging major dam projects in NSW and Queensland be abandoned, warning of significant environmental and agricultural consequences.
4 May 2022
The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen water flows recurringly decline and processes of...
16 Feb 2022
Tainted flows begin arriving in upper Menindee lakes in New South Wales as expert says problem ‘accelerated by poor management’
14 Dec 2021
If a river could speak, what would it tell you? Climb aboard and be prepared to get wet.
3 Nov 2021
Australia needs to overhaul how overabundant kangaroos are managed, rather than letting them starve or be culled as pests, according to an expert from The...
27 Oct 2021
Agriculture experts from The Australian National University (ANU) have teamed up with government bodies and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa to improve irrigation...