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Water in the Anthropocene: predicting how we interact with our modified environment

March 12, 2019 Seth Westra (University of Adelaide, OzEWEX Co-Chair)

In predicting the trajectory of future climate, water and ecosystems, we can no longer ignore the many ways in which human feedbacks modify our natural systems. The 5th national OzEWEX workshop explored how well we understand stores and […]

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‘Unique and alarming’: Engineers to be tested as rain events intensify

August 9, 2018 Peter Hannam (The Sydney Mornning Herald)

Australia’s rainfall events are already becoming more intense with climate change, raising the risks of flashflooding and potentially exceeding the nation’s engineering codes, a new study finds. While it’s long been understood the atmosphere holds about 6.5 per […]

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Basin-scale watering connects northern rivers in 2000km journey

July 15, 2018 MDBA

For the first time, water for the environment has flowed through a 2000-kilometre network of rivers in the northern Murray–Darling Basin, reaching the Menindee Lakes near Broken Hill. Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) head of compliance Russell James and […]

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Hunter Valley’s Bylong River could ‘dry up’ as department ignores advice of NSW Water Office

May 30, 2018 Michael Slezak (ABC)

A large foreign-owned mine planned for prime agricultural land in the NSW Hunter Valley could cause the Bylong River and local creeks to “dry up”, according to an assessment by the NSW Water Office obtained under freedom of […]

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Call for scientists to lead action on climate change

February 25, 2018 Ben Long (UOW)

In an opinion piece in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, University of Wollongong researcher Dr Sarah Hamylton writes about the emotional challenges facing environmental scientists as the effects of climate change become more obvious and more widespread. She urges more scientists […]

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Murray-Darling basin plan fails environment and wastes money – experts

February 25, 2018 Anne Davies (The Guardian)

A group of prominent scientists and economists have issued a stark warning to the nation’s politicians: the Murray-Darling basin plan is failing to achieve environmental goals and is a “gross waste” of money. The group of seven economists […]

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Murray-Darling Basin Authority accused of cover-up

February 25, 2018 Peter Hannam

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority omitted evidence from a report on satellite monitoring technology that apparently showed water bought by taxpayers for environment purposes was being sucked up by a downstream irrigator, a former senior staffer said. The discovery […]

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‘Traitors and turncoats’: Murray-Darling Basin’s future in the balance

February 25, 2018 Peter Hannam (The Sydney Morning Herald)

In the frenetic last days of haggling between federal Minister for Water Resources David Littleproud and Labor counterpart Tony Burke to secure the opposition’s crucial support to change the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the new minister trotted out a […]

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New research explains how native trees sweat out heat waves

February 20, 2018 University of Western Sydney

We know that the heat is uncomfortable for humans and animals, but how does our native flora fare? New Western Sydney University research has offered a glimpse of whether our trees will cope with ever-rising average temperatures and […]

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Murray-Darling plan doomed to fail unless more water earmarked for conservation: scientists

June 29, 2017 Tom Iggulden, ABC Leave a comment

  There has been no overall improvement in the health of Australia’s biggest river system after five years of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP), scientists say. Key points: The MDBP governs the use of water from Australia’s largest […]

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