Archived Industry News for Water Professionals - February, 2020
The WA Government will soon be trucking drinking water into more than a dozen dry towns.
States fight over extraction
An interstate stoush is emerging between the New South Wales and Queensland Governments over irrigators extracting water from potential river flows.
Councils rally for funding fight
Remote WA councils are gearing up for a legal fight with the Federal Government over drought funding.
Dolphin contamination increases
Great Barrier Reef water pollution could threaten rare dolphin populations.
Drum lines returning to Reef
Shark drum lines are making a return to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Fitzroy River plans slow
Indigenous groups do not want the West Australian Government to open up the Fitzroy River to large-scale irrigation.
Floods push barra back home
Scientists have discovered that barramundi exhibit very accurate homing behaviour, travelling up to 80 km to their “home” billabongs after wet season rains.
Hundreds back bushfire link
Over 250 Australian scientists have signed a public statement showing the peer-reviewed links between climate change and bushfires.