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 […]
Tag Archives: Water resources
National Water Week: ‘It’s time to change the world’
If you didn’t know it already, we’re nearing the end of National Water Week 2019! It happens every October to build awareness of water environments and resources, and to remind […]
The Future of Water
It’s National Water Week and the theme is ‘Water for Me, Water for All‘. Earlier this month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their landmark report on Global […]
A new water law (& a new prime-minister)…that’s just how we roll over here
The major difference between the two being that one of Western Australia’s key water laws (the elderly Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Act 1909 ) has not changed for […]
Ramsar – the city for Wetlands (Hooray! It’s World Wetlands Day!)
2nd February 1971, marks the date of the signing of the The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance – the Ramsar Convention – in the Iranian city of Ramsar, located […]
Double whammy: plaudits for water champions of WA
It’s been a huge week for the WA water industry as plaudits were handed out at the recent Stormwater Industry Association awards night (17th November 2015) AND the Australian Water Association […]
National Water Week! 18th – 24th October 2015 (we’re going back to the future!!)
National Water Week is back again for 2015, starting Monday next week 18th October and running until Friday 24th October! The theme for this year is INNOVATION. Which is very […]
Where will our water come from?
Australia: the world’s driest inhabited continent. And yet we’ve managed very successfully to provide ready access to sweet, fresh water to our denizens despite our limited and variable freshwater resources […]
Satellites & drones – the new way of understanding our water resources (they’re not just killer robots!)
While NASA satellites can usually be found zooming around Earth’s atmosphere collecting information on the history of the stars or nearby asteroids, NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites have […]
World Water Day! (we all need our H2O)
Last week’s Walk 4 Water culminated with the UN’s World Water Day yesterday, a yearly event marked on the 22nd March to remind us of how much we need and […]
