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Policy reform is urgently needed to make water use in Australia sustainable, but it won’t be effective unless it’s based on facts.
Growing and changing demands for water and the increasing impacts of climate change are adding to the challenge of ensuring everyone has access to a safe and reliable water supply.
Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.
With fewer people commuting, home water use changed radically overnight in March 2020.
Regional tourism took a huge knock from the Day Zero experience in Cape Town, South Africa. Here are the lessons learnt.
There are measures in place to manage Day Zero and beyond. Models show that these will not work.
Australian cities have turned to some very costly solutions when water is scarce. But as the world’s second-highest users of water per person, more efficient use and recycling are key.
Geosciences can be a valuable tool in the fight to provide Sub-Saharan Africa with safe drinking water.
Water demand and availability will be the most critical sign of future agricultural productivity in Australia. More Australian…
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