Government pledges action in response to fish deaths report
11 April, 2019The federal government has responded to an independent report into the 2018–19 fish deaths in the lower Darling region, pledging over $70 million to enact the report's recommendations.
Pumps United PFAS treatment system
04 April, 2019 | Supplied by: Pumps UnitedPumps United has engineered a treatment process that is designed to remediate PFAS contamination.
Getting smart with 'plug-and-play' water quality monitoring
04 April, 2019 | Supplied by: Burkert Fluid Control SystemsKempsey Shire Council updated its traditional water quality monitoring with a smarter 'plug-and-play' solution, achieving excellent accuracy results.
Commercial deal to take Mackay smart water app to next level
04 April, 2019 | Supplied by: Taggle Systems Pty LtdA multimillion-dollar deal between Mackay Regional Council and tech company Taggle Systems has transferred rights to the council's locally developed smart water application, MiWater.
Research traces water contaminants back to the source
02 April, 2019Multimillion-dollar research is underway at UNSW's Water Research Centre to determine how to treat and neutralise emerging contaminants in our water supplies.
Why we need to use water desalination plants early
27 March, 2019 by Nathan Taylor, Professor Andrew Western and Professor John Langford, University of MelbourneThe long dry has left Melbourne’s water supplies at their lowest levels since 2011, at less than 55 per cent capacity.
KELLER ARC-1 Autonomous Remote Data Collector
25 March, 2019 | Supplied by: Bestech Australia Pty LtdThe ARC-1 is the latest-generation data logger from KELLER, superseding the GSM-2 device. The unit remotely tracks pressure measurements and fill and water levels, and monitors limit values.
Wetland sends phosphorous levels south
25 March, 2019 | Supplied by: SA WaterWater monitoring in the Cox Creek Catchment in the Adelaide Hills has revealed up to an 80% reduction in phosphorous levels over the last decade.
What's amiss with drinking treated sewage?
21 March, 2019 by Andrew Miley* | Supplied by: Hydroflux Industrial Pty LtdIn 2006 Toowoomba voted against a wastewater-recycling scheme that would have supplied their homes with drinking water sourced from treated, recycled wastewater.
Watch your water footprint, says WaterAid
20 March, 2019Food and clothing imports are preventing many poor and marginalised communities from getting a daily clean water supply, according to a new report from WaterAid.
Smart design makes water work in Tongzhou District
18 March, 2019 | Supplied by: Bentley Systems Pty LtdTongzhou District in Beijing is marked for intense future urban development, but water shortages as a result of declining groundwater supplies posed a problem.
AXIOMA Metering QALCOSONIC F1 (IP65) ultrasonic water meter
18 March, 2019 | Supplied by: AMS Instrumentation & Calibration Pty LtdThe QALCOSONIC F1 (IP65) ultrasonic water meter measures cold and hot water consumption in a residential, commercial or industrial setting.
Billions wasted in water recovery subsidies, reveals ANU study
07 March, 2019An ANU study has revealed that billions of dollars are being wasted in water recovery subsidies across the Murray–Darling Basin.
Murray–Darling water prices unlikely to reach millennium peaks
07 March, 2019ABARES research reveals that water allocation prices in 2019–20 are unlikely to reach Millennium Drought peaks.
Testing algae to prevent future fish kills
06 March, 2019 by Jane Allman | Supplied by: Thermo Fisher ScientificAs drought continues to threaten Australia's water supply and climate change disrupts our ecosystems, solutions are needed to ensure our rivers, and life in them, survive.
