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South Australia’s droughts are getting worse

September 23, 2019 Goyder Institute

A new study has found that South Australia’s droughts are getting worse, becoming longer and more severe. Professor Simon Beecham, UniSA’s Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Innovation, led the study and drew on data from his Goyder Institute […]

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Australia’s ‘watergate’: here’s what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks

May 10, 2019 Lin Crase (University of South Australia)

The federal government committed to reducing water extraction from the Murray-Darling Basin. Shutterstock In 2017, the then agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, signed off on an A$80 million purchase of a water entitlement from a company called Eastern Australia […]

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Environmental water storage, extreme climates and hidden droughts

June 14, 2016 Zunyi Xie (UTS) and Simon Walker (OzEWEX) Leave a comment

Understanding the impacts of extreme climatic events on environmental water storage is crucial knowledge for Australia, the driest inhabited continent on Earth. Recent work by Zunyi Xie and his colleagues found that Australia gained three times more water […]

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