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Tag Archives: Swan River

World Rivers Day!

30 September, 2020by urbaqua Leave a comment

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 […]

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recognition, Water, water resource management

Will your house flood? Floodplain management in Perth

22 August, 2019by urbaqua Leave a comment

When people think of Perth they tend not to think of flooding like that which happened in Brisbane in January 2011. However, many Perthites do live in and around the […]

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climate change, community, environment, flood, modelling, planning

Bird is the Word: success at Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary

5 May, 2016by urbaqua Leave a comment

Eric Singleton would definitely have agreed with Peter Griffin insofar as the bird being the word! Eric was a local bird enthusiast, conservationist, and long time resident of Bayswater, who successfully had the urban wetland […]

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community, environment, WSUD

River stories from pre-colonial Perth

14 April, 2015by becmackintosh Leave a comment

Following the high of the Stormwater WA conference Hydropolis 2015, which included a welcome from Wadjuk Nyoongar Elder Noel Nunnup, we were inspired to follow the water story given by […]

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community, environment

What does the future hold for the Swan River?

6 October, 2014by urbaqua Leave a comment

The Auditor General of Western Australia (WA) released a report last month on the health of the Swan-Canning river system. For those of you not lucky enough to have visited […]

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