Turtle Island
Turtle Island is a place 1,900 km way up north of Perth in Cone Bay, and approximately 200 km north east of Broome. It is a beautiful little island that […]
Hydropolis 2020
Stormwater WA‘s annual showpiece, the Hydropolis conference (10-11 November 2020), was finally held (in person!) after a number of COVID and other-related delays. The conference’s theme ‘Water Sensitive Stormwater is […]
Kaya! It’s NAIDOC week
Kaya (hello)! – how many words do you know of the Aboriginal language group from your part of Australia? If you happen to live in the southwest of Australia you […]
Dry: free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist (see Perth).
As the mercury in our thermometers here in spring-y Perth start to expand, and the almost-summer warm air starts to drift into town, the (sort of) rains of our winter […]
Hotham-Williams all wRAPped up
Urbaqua has had the opportunity to work closely with the Peel Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC) this last year on a number of partnership projects monitoring and assessing the health of […]
World Rivers Day!
World Rivers Day is a global celebration of our waterways that occurs on the fourth Sunday of September every year. This year it was on 29 September 2020 (we missed […]
National Water Week: 19-25 October 2020
Australia gets a whole week to build awareness around the value of water: National Water Week, coordinated by the Australian Water Association (AWA), was created to remind us how hugely […]
Wharf St smart park now online
The ribbon has officially been cut and the turtles have been released at the Wharf Street Basin Next Generation Community Park in Cannington, and the City of Canning‘s first smart […]
R U OK? #theyearofCOVID-19
R U OK? Day is tomorrow, Thursday 10 September 2020. It’s a national day of action where Australians are reminded that every day it is OK to ask, “Are you […]
It’s World Water Week (At Home)
We’re right in the middle of World Water Week (24 – 28 August 2020) – organised for almost 30 years by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). This week been […]
