By DEBRA JOPSON REGIONAL AFFAIRSJanuary 25, 2010 WATER that the State Government plans to release from Lake Jindabyne dam into the Snowy River over the next three days will do no more than supply ”life support” to a river which is dying through neglect, a local watchdog body has claimed. From today extra water – […]
Several residents already bitten by the plague of poisonous arachnids By Kathy Marks in SydneyThursday, 21 January 2010 Forget sharks and crocodiles: the real menace at this time of year, at least for surburban Sydneysiders, is a backyard spider whose bite can kill you in the space of two hours. Insect experts have warned that […]
Monthly mean SEA rainfall for the long-term climatology (black bars), for the ongoing protracted drought (red bars); changes from the long term climatology are shown as blue bars. The continuous months with negative rainfall anomalies are outlined with the orange box. The long-term rainfall deficiency since October 1996 across South Eastern Australia (south of 33.5ºS […]
By Staff WritersParkes, Australia (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 Torrential rains in Australia have failed to quench the country’s “Big Dry”, a decade-long drought that has driven farmers to the wall and shows no signs of abating. While the rains flooded many areas in recent weeks, made parched rivers flow again and even halted the iconic […]
By BEN CUBBYJanuary 19, 2010 Life is blooming in Lake Pamamaroo, western NSW, as the Boxing Day floods wind their way down the Darling River. From the air the pale green, swollen river is a striking contrast to the scarred, orange plains on either side. On the ground the water level is visibly rising by […]
By BILL HOFFMANJanuary 18, 2010 THE central Sunshine Coast’s rapidly receding coastline means it is almost inevitable a hard structure will need to be built to halt further erosion. That is the grim assessment of Sunshine Coast Council manager of coast and canal engineering Denis Shaw as he has watched the high tide line close […]
Changes in storage levels in the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Dam levels dropped from almost full in 1996 to a quarter full by 2009 along with a steep decline in the amount of water flowing into Australia’s major reservoirs. Decade in dam levels Technorati Tags: drought,freshwater depletion,Australia,global warming,climate change,agriculture
The long dry is sapping Melbourne’s dams and raising questions about the viability of the city’s water supply. … Since the network of dams was built several decades ago, Melbourne has never had less drinking water. The record low-water mark was broken in mid-April, when storages reached 28.3 per cent of capacity. With consumption outstripping […]
By PETER KERJanuary 13, 2010 MELBOURNE’S dams collected more water than the city needed in 2009, but it was a rare triumph for the old system at the end of a dire decade. Data released yesterday showed the decade between 2000 and 2009 was easily the driest on record for inflows to the city’s major […]
By TOM ARUPJanuary 13, 2010 THE NSW Government has agreed to allow some of the floodwater finding its way into the Murray-Darling river system to flow through to the endangered Coorong wetlands at the mouth of the Murray in South Australia. The decision by the Premier, Kristina Keneally, yesterday comes after immense pressure from the […]
