By Professor Edward Blakely* The United States has dealt with more disasters in the last four years than any period in nearly a century. This path of destruction has been…
Category: Water
Randwick Council tops NSW council sustainability awards
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski There’s no shortage of awards and prizes for sustainability initiatives, but Sydney’s Randwick City Council has taken out top honours over its state local…
Vic councils sandbag against flood levee cost shifting
By Paul Hemsley Victoria’s City of Greater Bendigo is digging in for a fight to prevent the state government from shifting responsibility for flood levee bank funding from the Catchment…
Clover to flush Green Square toilets with stormwater
By Paul Hemsley City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has moved to reduce the amount of drinking-quality water used by residents and workers in favour of using recycled stormwater…
Financial probe launched after Wide Bay Water mayhem
By Paul Hemsley The Queensland government will instigate a ministerial probe into the financial operations of the Fraser Coast Regional Council and the Wide Bay Water Corporation (WBWC) recent stoushes…
NSW mayors dispatched to US
By Paul Hemsley Mayors from New South Wales will meet with leading American experts in sustainable urban design and planning from this week to thrash out how they can embed…
Water now an uphill battle for Toowoomba
By Paul Hemsley The Queensland town of Toowoomba might be synonymous with the tragic Queensland floods, but the small city’s council is pinning its hopes on a permanent fix for…
NICTA called-in to plumb depths at Sydney Water
By Julian Bajkowski Top boffins at Australia’s government-funded information technology research and development lab, NICTA, have been called in to help fix notoriously leaky plumbing at state owned utility, Sydney…
Key providers named in $1.3 billion plumbing overhaul for Sydney Water
By Julian Bajkowski State owned utility Sydney Water has named the first tranche of successful tenders in its $1.3 billion infrastructure overhaul slated to run from 2013 to 2018. The…
Federal funds put councils in hot water
By Paul Hemsley Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus, has launched a program to help local councils install solar or heat pump hot water systems in…