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| UpdatedWater begins flowing from Victoria's desalination plant more than four years after it was completed, as the Government moves to reassure Victorians that water bills will not go up as the result of a new regular water order.
Topics: water-supply, water-management, water, environment, state-parliament, wonthaggi-3995, vic, melbourne-3000
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Water targets in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan will be met without irrigation buybacks, ministers decide.
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Topics: water-management, water-supply, water, murray-darling-basin, rivers, community-development, agricultural-policy, joyce-barnaby, irrigation, mildura-3500
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Much of Australia's recent focus on water reform has been trained on the Murray-Darling Basin. But the Productivity Commission is taking a much broader view as it embarks on a year-long review of Australia's water reform project, looking at what's been done, and what is left to do. Productivity Commissioner Jane Doolan told ABC Rural's Anna Vidot she hopes communities across Australia will get involve to have their say.
Topics: drought, climate-change, rivers, water-supply, water-management, water, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedThe Productivity Commission wants to look well beyond the Murray-Darling, in its year-long review of Australia's water reform project.
Topics: drought, climate-change, rivers, water-supply, water-management, water, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's River Murray irrigators will receive 100 per cent water allocation for the coming water year, due to recent high river flows and improved Basin storages.
Topics: irrigation, water, renmark-5341
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A $3 million refurbishment means Canberra's Captain Cook Memorial Jet is back, bigger than ever.
Topics: engineering, water, human-interest, local-government, canberra-2600
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Topics: water, engineering, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedResidents of a small Canadian town are left puzzled when their tap water starts running an "alarming" bright pink, but authorities say there is no risk to public safety.
Topics: water-supply, water-management, water, human-interest, offbeat, canada
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Treasurer Peter Gutwein flags resource sharing and more Tasmanian Government borrowing as he outlines plans to take over the state's water body, TasWater, from local councils.
Topics: water-management, water, water-supply, tas
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| UpdatedAccess to safe water and sanitation are often highlighted as among the most powerful preventive measures to reduce infectious diseases, and in the Pacific they can play a role in improving gender equality and women's livelihoods.
Topics: water, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian woman delivering clean drinking water to thousands of people on the other side of the world hopes her story will inspire others this International Women's Day.
Topics: water-pollution, water-supply, water, charities, women, tas, australia, ethiopia
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Landholders in north Queensland say the Great Artesian Basin could underpin their plans to develop irrigated agriculture.
Topics: irrigation, water, boulia-4829, richmond-4822
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Researchers from the Australian National University call for an urgent rethink of the Basin Plan, arguing the money being spent is not achieving the desired results set out under the policy.
Topics: water, water-management, environment, rural, sa, vic, nsw, qld, act
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Thirty diesel generators the size of shipping containers are installed at Victoria's desalination plant on the Bass Coast to provide an emergency back-up power supply.
Topics: water, land-pollution, wonthaggi-3995
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Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, water, water-supply, water-management, reid-2612, campbell-2612, act, australia
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A slanging match breaks out over a proposal for Tasmania's water and sewerage system to be taken out of the hands of local councils.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, water-management, water, water-supply, tas
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More than 2,300 submissions respond to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's proposed changes to its northern water-sharing plan.
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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority is confident that basin governments and communities will "stay the course" on implementing the Plan. He talks to ABC Rural's Anna Vidot about the year ahead.
Topics: murray-darling-basin, water, water-management, water-supply, federal---state-issues, federal-government, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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Topics: rural, land-management, water, water-management, water-supply, maryborough-4650
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Topics: rural, land-management, water, water-management, water-supply, maryborough-4650