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 […]
Tag Archives: Water resources
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 […]
Kalamunda – a local government’s passion for water reuse goes a long way (underground)!
New WAter Ways arranged a most excellent speaker for its Water Sensitive Cities Speakers Series event (try saying that three times quickly) earlier this year: Dan Nelson, Coordinator Project Delivery from […]
