THE Great Artesian Basin — one of the largest underground water reservoirs in the world — is in danger of going the same way as the ailing Murray-Darling Basin because of reckless corporate abuse, aided by political ignorance, says South Australian senator Nick Xenophon. The independent senator will tell a groundwater conference in Adelaide today […]
ABC Radio National – Monday 16/11/09
Western Queensland state MP Vaughan Johnson says it would be irresponsible and “sacrilege” to sell off water from the Great Artesian Basin. The New South Wales Government is planning to auction water from the basin in Walgett, in northern NSW, later this month. The basin underlies one-fifth of Australia and is a valuable water source […]
Water users across north-west New South Wales will today appeal to the State Government to stop next week’s controversial water auction at Walgett. Coonamble farmers Neil and Anne Kennedy have formed the Great Artesian Basin Protection Group to fight the sale of water saved under the Cap and Pipe the Bores Scheme. The group, which […]
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Michael McKenzie on Bush Telegraph (ABC Radio National) discusses the recent GAB water auction.
North-western New South Wales water users fighting the auction of Great Artesian Basin (GAB) water have been given a guarantee it will be a one-off. The State Government is pushing ahead with tomorrow’s sale at Walgett of 1,200 megalitres of water saved from capping and piping bores. But Coonamble’s Anne Kennedy from the Great Artesian […]
The Olympic Dam/Roxby Downs mine has a voracious appetite for water to process the uranium, copper, gold and silver it extracts from underground. It obtains this water from the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) within the Lake Eyre region via two principal borefields, known as Borefield A and Borefield B (sometimes called “Wellfield”). These borefields have […]
The World Today (ABC) – Nick Xenophon and Professor Craig Simmons, warn that the ancient waters of the GAB are under severe stress (21/09/2009)
Australia’s Artesian Basin – $14 Billion down the drain each year The traditional view of the Great Artesian Basin, which is the basis of government policies and which is taught in schools, is that the aquifer is a porous rock where the water content is continuously replenished by slow seepage from the strata outcrops in […]
Coal seam groundwater concerns