By ERIK JENSENFebruary 16, 2010 LAKE GEORGE, north-east of Canberra, has water in it for the first time since 2002. Lake Woytchugga, near Wilcannia, is looking like a water body for the first time in a decade. And in Sydney last week’s rain gave the city’s catchment its highest inflow since 2007. ”The rain’s been […]
February 11, 2010 – 1:55PM (AAP) Heavy rainfall has brought much relief to drought affected areas across NSW, providing a morale boost for those living on the land, the government says. New figures show 65.7 per cent of NSW is drought affected – a 16 per cent drop since last month. “As we approach the […]
By Staff WritersParis (AFP) Feb 7, 2010 A drought that has gripped the southwestern corner of Australia since the 1970s is linked with higher snowfall in East Antarctica, a phenomenon that may be rooted in global warming, scientists reported on Sunday. Researchers Tas van Ommen and Vin Morgan of the Australian Antarctic Division said that […]
By Michael PerrySYDNEYSun Feb 7, 2010 11:27pm EST SYDNEY (Reuters) – The dream of turning Australia’s tropical north into a major food bowl to replace drought-stricken southern farmlands and feed a future Asia has been shattered by a new report released on Monday. Despite a billion of liters of annual rain, the equivalent of […]
By ELLIE HARVEYFebruary 8, 2010 NO MATTER how much it rains, it never seems to hit the right spots, but at the weekend the water may have finally found the dams. The Warragamba catchment received its biggest fall in 2½ years. Total drinking storage increased by about 2 per cent since the rain began last […]
Sydney’s catchments have been swamped in rain, bringing some of the best falls in up to four years. The rain-starved Warragamba only this week posted yet another drop in capacity and is now about 50.9 per cent, Martin Palmer, meteorologist with The Weather Company, says. Huge falls around the Central Tablelands on Friday, as bands […]
The world’s most miserable-looking fish is in danger of becoming extinct, according to scientists. By Andrew HoughPublished: 7:30AM GMT 26 Jan 2010 Scientists fear the blobfish, which can grow up to 12 inches, is in danger of being wiped out by over-fishing in its south eastern Australian habitat. The fish, which lives at depths of […]
A review of the amount of water flowing into Melbourne’s dams shows 2000-2009 was the worst on record for Melbourne’s major reservoirs. It was significantly down on the previous low set during the 1980s. Decade in dam levels Technorati Tags: drought,freshwater depletion,Australia,global warming,climate change,agriculture
January 28, 2010 (AAP) – Sydney’s controversial desalination plant has been switched on and is pumping purified sea water into the city’s drinking supply. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally pushed the button on the $1.9 billion plant, at Kurnell in Sydney’s south, this morning. At capacity, the plant will generate 250 million litres of water a […]
By BEN CUBBYJanuary 25, 2010 LOGGING is set to start within weeks in a forest that supports the last known koala colony on the NSW far south coast. The NSW Government is yet to release data from a comprehensive survey of koala habitat and population in Mumbulla and Murrah state forests, near Tathra, even though […]
