At least four of the state’s 13 water-sharing plans are not taking the Millennium Drought into consideration when calculating how much dam water to quarantine for towns at the expense of irrigators. A further four are planning to […]
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The Victorian government has ruled out new dams, saying climate change means not enough water would flow into them to make them worthwhile. Water Minister Lisa Neville says water in the state’s rivers will halve by 2065, citing […]
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Sydney households will have up to $35 added to their annual water bills to cover the restart of the city’s desalination plant, the Berejiklian government says. On Tuesday, Sydney and Wollongong’s dams were 60.3 per cent full, marginally […]
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