Archived Industry News for Water Professionals - April, 2015
Water Corporation in Western Australia will shed hundreds of jobs, as it shifts its corporate direction.
Water Minister thinks on city-country switch
Victorian Water Minister Lisa Neville says she will look at water held for Melbourne as a way to improve water security for rural irrigators.
Water worries should be white-washed
Trendy Californians are happy to guzzle treated water, but local experts say it will need a re-branding before Australians are excited about recycled supplies.
Woodside's new find could be tied-in
Woodside Petroleum has come across some new gas off the West Australian coast.
Big water spill in Victorian reforms
The Victorian Government has undertaken large-scale sacking of executives on water and environment boards.
Calls for more as Joyce's drought money runs dry
The pressure is on for the Federal Government to improve drought assistance, as farmers struggle against seriously dry times.
Experts say new spills will go better than BP's
Oil spill clean-up groups say they will be much better placed to respond to the next big event, having learned a lot since BP’s Deepwater Horizon debacle.
Farm hormone could harm fish love
A common agricultural growth hormone appears to affect the sexual behaviours of fish – with some potentially serious ecological and evolutionary consequences.
Irrigation experts kept in the game
Deakin University in Melbourne has taken on CSIRO’s last remaining irrigation researchers.
Minister moving ahead on Bendigo water talks
Victoria's Water Minister, Lisa Neville, has attended talks on Bendigo’s groundwater problems.
NSW calls for monitors as CSG increases
The New South Wales Government has put up tenders for the monitoring of coal seam gas impacts on groundwater, but some residents say it may be too late.
Radiation reaches US, risk does not follow
Radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has made it to a North American shoreline, but researchers say it does not pose a significant threat to human or marine life.
Regulator details Tassie sewerage woes
Tasmania’s economic regulator still has some concerns about the quality of the state’s sewerage systems.
Water regulation could flow to new body
Responsibility for water regulation could be moved away from the ACCC.
Deal done for unprecedented dam
A subsidiary of global giant Leighton Holdings has won a $799 million contract to build a “mega reservoir” in Qatar.