Search Results: irrigation
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ENVIRONMENT
- James Dorsey
- 02 February 2010
Like much of the Gulf, Yemen faces a reduced water supply
compounded by climate change and poor management.
The crisis plays into the hands of the Al Qa'ida offshoot that claimed responsibility
for the failed Christmas Day bombing of a USA airliner.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 02 October 2009
2 Comments
An alliance of traditional owners in the Murray Darling Basin is seeking to assert their role in decisions concerning water management.
In Murray River Country, Jessica K. Weir shows how their view for a healthy river could bring
economics and ecology into alignment.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2008
7 Comments
In The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a town tries to buy a cheap solution to a terrible problem, and their children pay the price. In light of Garnaut's latest, coservative climate change recommendations, it seems we may need a Class 5 tropical cyclone slamming into Brisbane to jolt us into decisive action.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 30 April 2008
5 Comments
The Murray is a harnessed beast. Its flow is regulated by locks and weirs. The engineering feats to which we are wedded seem not so much a testimony to our power as to our continued foreignness. From Eureka Street, June 1991.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 20 February 2008
7 Comments
The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our
financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the
damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sean McDonagh
- 12 December 2007
1 Comment
It seemed a last minute reprieve for tropical forests could emerge at the UN climate change meeting in Bali. Because 20% of greenhouse emissions are due to forest destruction, stablising greenhouse gas emissions requires reduction in the rate of deforestation.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 27 February 2007
8 Comments
Australia is not infinite; there is a limit to our productive capacity and we may well have already exceeded it. One of the unmentionable and politically incorrect questions is how many people the continent can sustain while retaining some respect for the integrity of the landscape.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Clare Coburn
- 27 February 2007
5 Comments
Throwing money at water is not the only way to fix our current problems. Reflecting on some of the meandering and non-linear qualities of water, and seeking to emulate them, may be a starting point for more receptive and sensitive ways of being in the world.
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INFORMATION
- Geoffrey Laity
- 09 July 2006
Farmers and water
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Sendy reviews Words for Country: landscape & language in Australia, Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths, eds.
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ENVIRONMENT
Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act is full of holes.
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