| Water Week |
| Water Week |
(proof version) About two-thirds of irrigators in the MDB changed their water management practices during 2004-05 after programs of grants were offered The ABS reported In August 2008, in 2004-05, the most common changes to irrigation practices in the MDB (as a proportion of total MDB irrigated farms) were:
(Full Article)(proof version) Money was now paid to areas across half of Australia, when it did not rain.
(Full Article)(proof version) Because water availability remains very low, the allocation for town water supply remains on 50 per cent of entitlement. Town water supply authorities are asked to remain conservative with all water use. Compliance
(Full Article)(proof version) An initial allocation for Murrumbidgee high security users of 30 per cent announced on 1 August, was made possible because of increased inflows into the Snowy storages and small tributary inflows into Burrinjuck and Blowering Dams was rasied to 40pc.
(Full Article)(proof version) . The River Murray system remains in severe drought. The long-term average inflow for July is 1 190 GL and the previous minimum for July was 135 GL in July 2006.
(Full Article)(proof version) The Murray - Darling drought had extended and, there was only 1 570 GL in daily flows for the Basin, Emergency measures were now a way of life in the Murray - Darling Basin. The shortfall in River Murray water resources left either no water at all or barely enough for flows for critical needs.
(Full Article)After about about a year, the final prettified edition of last year’s Hydro Tasmania annual report was published by Hydro Tasmania, just weeks before the current year’s 2008 - report was due to State Treasury, on 15 August.
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