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There's nothing more essential or basic than water. It's the foundation of life, our most precious commodity and our most contested resource. Whatever your take, share your tales of water and add to...
View ArticleRecycling water in the desert
As part of National Water Week we take a look inside the Alice Springs Water Reuse Plant to see just how our waste water is being used.
View ArticleAll aboard the women's water bus
There was some secret women's business going on in Alice Springs yesterday.
View ArticleWaste water recycling
Most cities across Australia have experienced water restrictions in one form or another over the past decade.
View ArticleDesert oasis
In the middle of summer most weather reports around Australia are all about cool changes whereas in Alice Springs our climate is just hot until April so we don't even think about cooler weather
View ArticleIrrigators want High Court hearing soon on water legislation
Irrigators from three states are hoping the Australian High Court will hear their constitutional challenge to the 2007 Water Act before Christmas.
View ArticleRemembering the 1988 flood
If you've seen the Todd River flow more than three times then you're officially classified as a local.
View ArticleFracking sparks fears for aquifers
Environmentalists in Alice Springs say it is up to the Northern Territory Government to develop guidelines for the mining industry to ensure aquifers in central Australia are protected.
View ArticleOutback water bubbler trials target soft drinks
A Federal Government department will trial water bubblers in five central Australian communities in an effort to reduce soft drink consumption.
View ArticleSmiles all round as pool re-opens
Kids and adults alike are breathing a sigh of relief in Santa Teresa after the local pool re-opened for the first time in more than a year.
View ArticleCall for groundwater trading scheme
Researchers say a groundwater trading scheme could be used to protect Australia's underground water resources.
View ArticleSweet water in the desert
The boys from NT Thunder are doing their bit to promote water conservation in some of our driest communities
View ArticleKintore to get new water plant
The chief executive of the MacDonnell Shire says a new water treatment plant is being installed at Kintore.
View ArticleGardeners urged to tap into water savings
The business manager at Alice Water Smart says residents could be saving hundreds of thousands of litres of water every year by installing more efficient watering systems.
View ArticleCamels in Red Centre could die of thirst
Water scientists warn that large mobs of feral camels are destroying waterholes and are at risk of dying of thirst, because of the dry season around Central Australia.
View ArticleDry weather helps camel cull
New data indicates that more than 100,000 feral camels have now been culled in under the Australian Feral Camel Management Project.
View ArticleEnvironmentalists renew calls for fracking moratorium
Northern Territory environmentalist are concerned over a project to frack a horizontal well in central Australia.
View ArticleWater saving rules sought for Alice
An environmental group in Alice Springs is trying to introduce voluntary water rules for the town, to help reduce water wastage.
View ArticleTalks focus on alternative Alice water supplies
The deputy director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research says alternative water supplies need to be found for Alice Springs.
View ArticleLearn to Swim boom
There is a waiting list for the Learn to Swim in Alice Springs with the number of students enrolled doubling since the last school term
View ArticleHow to save on your Power and Water bill
Power and Water price increases have hit home with Territorians after the Government announced the figures yesterday. Now, consumers are looking for ways to reduce their bills. Here are some suggestions
View ArticleOrmiston Gorge found to be the deepest waterhole
Ask any local which is the deepest waterhole in Central Australia and chances are, they'll tell you it's Ellery Creek Big Hole, just east of Alice Springs.
View ArticleTenants asked to pay for water after price hikes
The Northern Territory Consumer Affairs Commissioner has warned tenants may soon be asked to pay for their water
View ArticleRe-use scheme taps into water savings
Alice Springs residents will soon be able to buy recycled and treated water for the first time.
View ArticleNT releases plan for managing artesian water
The Northern Territory Government has released a draft management plan for the Great Artesian Basin.
View ArticleGroundwater study taps into Ti Tree Basin
Scientists from Flinders University are in the Northern Territory to conduct one of the largest arid zone groundwater studies ever undertaken in Australia.
View ArticleTrees wear silver jackets for groundwater science
Scientists have dressed up about 20 trees along a river bed on a Northern Territory cattle station in large silver jackets, all in the name of groundwater science.
View ArticleRemote control 'bat boat' to measure depth of remote dam
Surveyors in the Northern Territory are using a remote control boat to measure the depth of a dam in a remote Indigenous community.
View ArticleWater treatment plant officially opens
A new water treatment plant has officially opened today at a remote community in central Australia.
View ArticleWater meters to be trialled in Ali Curung
Water meters will be installed on public housing in a remote community in central Australia, as part of a trial to measure water consumption.
View ArticleWaterholes are brimming
Alice Springs' 'beaches' are officially open with summer rains filling our popular waterholes to capacity
View ArticleCouncillor says water committee 'hijacked'
Alice Springs Councillor Steve Brown says a government advisory committee was 'hijacked' by environmentalists
View ArticleElliott drinking water gets all clear
The Health Department says the water supply in the community of Elliott is now safe to drink.
View ArticleAmengernternenh community keen to find long-term fix to bore woes
The chief executive of the Barkly Regional Council says the council is looking at how permanent potable water can be restored to a remote Northern Territory community.
View ArticleHealth fears aired over Whitegate camp water woes
A central Australian health group is warning of a looming public health emergency at an unofficial Aboriginal town camp near Alice Springs.
View ArticleAboriginal community without running water for a month
Several Aboriginal groups are raising the alarm about a small community near Alice Springs that has been without a water supply for a month now. The Northern Territory Government has been resisting...
View ArticleTangentyere Council urges NT Govt to ease Whitegate camp water woes
The Northern Territory Government is resisting calls to reinstate the water supply to an Alice Springs town camp, where senior traditional owners have been without running water for a month.
View ArticleWater taps run dry for desert community
Native title holders living in poverty near Alice Springs have been surviving without running water for more than a month and the NT Government says it's under no obligation to turn the taps back on.
View ArticleMinister Bess Price says Whitegate water protest creates confusion
The Northern Territory Community Services Minister says residents of an unofficial Alice Springs town camp who protested outside her office yesterday need to understand who has jurisdiction over their...
View ArticleWater flows to Red Centre Indigenous outstation
The Northern Territory's Minister for Community Services will turn on running water to an outstation, 135 kilometres north of Alice Springs, for the first time today.
View ArticleHealth service to get Utopia water donations
Money raised from public donations, to fund a water bore in the Utopia region of the Northern Territory, has been transferred to the local health service.
View ArticleAboriginal group takes Newman Government to United Nations over fracking in...
The United Nations is asked to intervene in a battle over oil and gas development in the Lake Eyre Basin.
View ArticleSeaplane pilots fly and splash across outback chasing the perfect adventure
Flying out bush might not seem like something you'd do in a seaplane, but for pilots Bill Handley and Bob Priddle, it's the perfect adventure.
View ArticleAboriginal map of Lake Eyre Basin, an area twice the size of France, released...
After 12 years and consultation with 71 language groups, the Lake Eyre Basin map finally sees the light of day.
View ArticleMonsoon late to the date but now ready to dump on Darwin
The cyclone risk is elevating. The rains are picking up. After a tardy start to the wet season, the Top End is nearly ready to welcome what it's long been waiting for.
View ArticleWater discovery in ancient underground valley boosts hopes of development in...
Outback drillers find water 90 metres below the surface of SA's APY Lands in an underground valley millions of years old and remote communities are hoping it will provide a much-needed economic boost.
View ArticleRed Centre shivers through frosty winter week with icicles forming at school...
A school in the heart of the desert has been covered with thousands of icicles, as the mercury plummets to new lows across the the NT
View ArticleNT rural residents face spending thousands to truck in water if bores run dry
With groundwater levels critically low and the wet season yet to begin, some rural Northern Territory residents fear they may have to pay thousands of dollars to truck in water for their homes.
View ArticleYuendumu in Central Australia at 'severe risk' of running out of water
The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water but it is just one of many communities in the region that have been struggling with finite...
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