Category: Water

The South Australian Local Government Association has warned that council revenue could be hit by Federal Budget cuts to state concessions, with a flow on to reduction to pensioner discounts on council rates.

Flood damage to public infrastructure can easily wash away local government financial resources. Now the peak body for councils is demanding a real increase in mitigation money from jurisdictions above them in an effort to stop them drowning in waterborne debt.

The availability of safe, clean and accessible loos in city centres is regarded as a defining, if understated, hallmark of a civilised society. Now the City of Sydney says it wants plenty more of them.

Port Jackson, better known as Sydney Harbour, is about to become a major public transport corridor after the NSW government called for designs for new vessels to bolster its fleet.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman wants to flush away excess water projects to the private sector to pay off debt and save on maintenance costs.

All too familiar with the physical and economic devastation that floods inflict, Queensland’s Newman government is now moving to substantially bolster water holding capacity to limit any potential future damage.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.

Local governments are piping in mobile innovation as they seek to make the most from their most liquid assets.

By John Willoughby* The issue of public toilets may not be the most glamorous procurement and policy topic around, but those working in government and industry ignore it at their…

By Dr Karin Alexander* In the 1930s, American scientists and public health researchers made a simple, but profoundly important discovery. People living in towns with around one part per million…