Daily water consumption has soared in south-east Queensland despite the severe drought, prompting the early rollout of water conservation campaigns. Seqwater, which manages almost 90 per cent of south-east Queensland’s water supply across 12 dams, reported that daily […]
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New data recording the past 1,500 years of flows in the Brisbane River have revealed that South-East Queensland’s climate – once assumed to be largely stable – is in fact highly variable. Until now, we have only had access to […]
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Most major floods in South East Queensland arrive in five-year bursts, once every 40 years or so, according to our new research. Yet flood estimation, protection and management approaches are still designed on the basis that flood risk stays the same […]
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