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News - July 2010

Our expanding world to top 7 billion in 2011

29 Jul 2010 ... WITH 267 people born every minute and 108 dying, the world's population will top 7 billion next year. While births soar, the ratio of ...
www.theage.com.au/world/our-expanding-world-to-top-7-billion-in-2011-20100730-10zud.html

Tag: Environmental Management - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ...

22 hours ago - Greens call for agricultural asset register. July 28, 2010 16:16:00. The Greens are calling for a national register of foreign ownership of agricultural ...
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Foreign farm buyers split Libs and Nats | The Australian

18 hours ago - Campaigning in central NSW this week, Greens leader Bob Brown said the register of ... Mr Cobb told The Australian he agreed with the idea of a national register. ... "We must ensure that our agricultural assets are not purchased by the ... Rudd in hospital to remove gall bladder · PM denies Labor SOS call to Rudd ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/national.../story-fn59niix-1225898725758

Food Bowl Modernisation Project | Greens MPs in Victoria

Shutting gate after horse has bolted - Sugarloaf pipeline project and food bowl modernisation project: production of documents. 28/07/2010 ...
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www.theage.com.au - Court bid to block water plan details

32 minutes ago - A KEY state government water agency has launched Supreme Court action to block ... the Brumby government still maintained the water savings could be made. ... with the north-south pipeline, was implemented without proper costings and ...
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Should Australia give up on the bush?

45 minutes ago - The Wentworth Group's suggested water reforms - including large purchases of water licences and diverting funds from infrastructure such as pipelines to broader .... refusal to free up funds angers Libs · Brumby plan exposes Gillard ...
www.smh.com.au/.../should-australia-give-up-on-the-bush-20100727-10uf4.html

AM - NSW Government in court over Snowy 24/07/2010

The Snowy River Alliance is taking the New South Wales Government to court claiming its failed to deliver on the agreement it signed with the Commonwealth ...
www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2963107.htm?site... - Cached

Victoria won't join Snowy court action - ABC News (Australian ...

16 hours ago - The Victorian Government has ruled out joining legal action against New South Wales, as part of a disagreement over river flows.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/25/2963413.htm?section=justin

Gillard's water shortage a mirage | The Australian

3 days ago - Young reckons water prices could end up doubling over half a decade. ... "You pay a price and you get as much as you like. Water is like any other good. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/...water...a.../story-e6frg9p6-1225895302590

Switch off desal, say water utilities | The Australian

2 days ago - Water prices have risen as much as 22 per cent this month, coinciding with a $9 billion investment in desalination plants in capital cities. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/...off...water.../story-e6frg97o-1225889565533

Victoria won't join Snowy court action - ABC Western Victoria ...

13 hours ago - But Premier John Brumby says that would be inappropriate, and he is already working ... "Our Water Minister has raised this with his counterpart in NSW on a number of occasions. ... Pipeline completion celebrated Photo icon Video icon ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/25/2963413.htm?site=westernvic

Whittlesea water bills to rocket - Local News - News - Whittlesea ...

2 hours ago - The water retailer, which covers Whittlesea, announced last month that the cost of water and ... including the northern sewerage project, the north-south pipeline, ... WIN tickets to the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Party, including an ...
whittlesea-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/.../whittlesea-water-bills-to-rocket-1/

Sea of debt

9 hours ago - Opposition water supply spokesman Peter Walsh says he believes annual domestic ... desalination plant and the failed north-south pipeline,'' says Mr Walsh. .... Sea of debt · Lovestruck Canadian tells of 45-year search for Melbourne ...
www.theage.com.au/victoria/sea-of-debt-20100712-107wj.html

Water group to vote on new buy-back stance / Agricultural News ...

5 minutes ago - "We support water buy-back which is voluntary and not compulsory, is at market rates, is at acceptable ... such as a Murray-Darling basin food bowl program. ...
www.efarming.com.au/.../water-group-to-vote-on-new-buy-back-stance.html

Country News - McPherson Media Group

2 hours ago - Water that was initially intended to benefit the environment of our northern rivers. ... should be preserved at all costs will likewise be sent to Melbourne. ... in the upper Goulburn catchment who have had the north-south pipeline, ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201007122679959

Water group to vote on new buy-back stance / Agricultural News ...

5 minutes ago - "We support water buy-back which is voluntary and not compulsory, is at market rates, is at acceptable ... such as a Murray-Darling basin food bowl program. ...
www.efarming.com.au/.../water-group-to-vote-on-new-buy-back-stance.html

Lakes no longer Quiet as works begin - Local News - News - General ...

6 hours ago - It will go on throughout next year, Melbourne Water warns us. ... plant and the north-south pipeline you're paying for through our ever-soaring water rates. ...
www.frankstonindependent.com.au/news/local/...no.../1882982.aspx?.

Green-Wedge Plan A Threat To Melbourne

14 hours ago - The north-south pipeline destroyed bushland and threatened the Goulburn river. .... The Melbourne hardly supplies enough water for 4 million and we want it ...
www.theage.com.au/.../greenwedge-plan-would-be-a-mortal-blow-to-liveability-20100711-105jy.html?..

Country Victorians denied water saving rebates - The Nationals ...

23 hours ago - Mr Delahunty said a large proportion of country water users were again being ... the new Wimmera Mallee Pipeline, which is very similar to a reticulated system. ... Authorised By Luke O'Sullivan, Level 10, 140 Bourke St, Melbourne 3000 ...
www.vicnats.com/news/article.aspx?ID=10814

Water Pipe on despite protest - Weekly Times Now

8 hours ago - Stage two of pipeline, worth $1 billion, is due to be funded by the Federal Government. ... More water for SA irrigators · Brumby's pipe funding plea ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/07/02/203591_water.html

Euroa Online Opinion

6 minutes ago - Brumby must accept responsibility for his own poll ratings · Greg's View of ... personal, pipeline, politics, politics of fear, population, post carbon, propaganda ... Victoria, volunteer, Wangaratta, war, waste, water, weird, Whitfield ...
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Melbourne dam levels set to rise

2 hours ago - Rudd to blame for poor Vic poll: Brumby. Jul 01, 2010 ... The controversial north-south pipeline pumped an additional 16.7 billion litres into storages. Melbourne Water's manager of water supply John Woodland said major projects like ...
news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1079270/melbourne-dam-levels-set-to-rise

Water bills skyrocket under Labor - The Nationals Victoria

8 hours ago - “But Labor is using the pipeline to take water from drought-stricken food ...Water customers are being forced to pay higher prices so John Brumby can ...
vic.nationals.org.au/news/article.aspx?ID=10795

From the Brumby frying pan into the Green fire | Herald Sun Andrew ...

3 hours ago - And the further away from Melbourne you get, the less likely people will vote ... The north south pipeline, the stealing of water allocations, the water ...
blogs.news.com.au/.../from_the_brumby_frying_pan_into_the_green_fire

Winter's blast of not-so-common cold | Herald Sun

14 hours ago - The month's mean temperature in Melbourne was a touch under 14C, roughly half ... from Eildon is factored into the figures because of the Sugarloaf pipeline. ... Melbourne Water water supply manager John Woodland said the amount flowing ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/winters.../story-e6frf7jo-1225886431271

Don't waste the Murray River! - On Line Opinion - 1/7/2010

5 hours ago - ... of the breadbasket of Australia, is the North-South Pipeline of Victoria. ... The government's excuse is that Melbourne consumers of this water will pay for ... A title system for the use of water similar to land ownership would be ...
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10593

Goulburn Murray Rural Report: Tuesday 22nd June 2010 - 22/06/2010

3 days ago - When Russell Cooper was at the helm of the water authority that looks after northern Victorian irrigation, foodbowl modernisation was formulated, ...
www.abc.net.au/rural/regions/content/201006/2933221.htm?site

Pipe 'blockage' - Local News - News - General - The Northern Times

19 hours ago - THE Victorian Legislative Council has blocked the Government's third attempt to use the controversial north-south pipeline to supplement Melbourne's water ...
www.thenortherntimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1867779.aspx

Some Victorians to see water bills soar past $1000 a year | Herald Sun

6 hours ago - WATER bills for some Victorian families are about to soar past $1000 a year. ... the north-south pipeline, sewerage upgrades and recycling initiatives. ... Yarra Valley Water managing director Tony Kelly said Melbourne's water bills ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/...water.../story-e6frf7jo-1225882978443

Unpopular View | Melbourne Water Crisis Issue Daily News & Media ...

21 hours ago - Unpopular View #2 - Brumbys Pipeline ... Tags: Topher Unpopular View Melbourne Victoria Water Crisis Shortage Bairnsdale Mitchell River Dam Wonthaggi ...
www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=23340

Former irrigation manager questions Food Bowl water savings ...

2 days ago - Former Goulburn Murray Water managing director Russell Cooper says he tried to warn the ... In this report: Russell Cooper, Former Managing Director, ...
www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/content/2010/06/s2934931.htm - Cached

Water order blocked as Brumby's arrogance risks Food Bowl funding ...

22 hours ago - “In May Melbourne Water said the pipeline was 'scheduled to shut down each year during the non-irrigation period that normally falls between 15 May and 15 ...