Save Water Alliance Inc. - Kangaloon aquifer

The New South Wales Government says plans to pump bore water from the Kangaloon Aquifer in the southern highlands are expected to proceed. . . . Go to: http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/illawarra/200702/s1838062.htm

"Save the Kangaloon Aquifer"

This is the link to a short movie that has been produced by Save Water Alliance documenting the Sydney Catchment Authority's reckless disregard for fragile groundwater-dependent eco-systems, like Butlers Swamp, or Stockyard Swamp, on the Tourist Road in East Kangaloon. The movie shows environmentally degraded areas that result from the SCA's 'test pumping' and endangered species that the Catchment Authority seems to be ignoring. The movie plays for 8 minutes.

$50m for a Week's Water

by Richard Macey, Sydney Morning Herald, 1/2/2007.

The Iemma Government's $50 million plan to pump underground water from the Southern Highlands may only provide enough water to supply Sydney's needs for a week each year. . . .

Go to: $50m for a week's water or read the text . . . . . . .

Hands off our creeks

The Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2006. To see a scan of this report, go to "Gallery" at the bottom of the menu selections, and select "Media File".

Latham Snipe Stops Pumping

Opponents of the exploitation of the Kangaloon Aquifer received their first major victory today, with the news that the new Federal Department of Environment, Heritage & Conservation has issued the NSW Government with a stop work order on the preparation work for pumping the Aquifer.

The Sydney Morning Herald (25/1/07) quotes a News Limited report, saying that the stopwork move had put Premier Morris Iemma's whole water policy at risk. Online report: Latham the bird halts work on water plan

A report by Simon Benson in The Daily Telegraph (25/1/07) suggests that a rare migratory bird, the Latham Snipe, and a number of endangered plant species may have tipped the balance in favour of caution. To see The Daily Telegraph report, go to:

http://www.savewateralliance.org.au/component/option,com_expose/Itemid,21/

Poor Control Bleeding Aquifers Dry, Say Experts

by Wendy Frew, Environment Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald, January 11, 2007.

Aquifers are becoming increasingly degraded and depleted because of government failure to control the use of groundwater, experts say.

The Myth of Sydney Being Drought Proof

As published originally in the Sydney Morning Herald, February 9, 2006

With political lives at stake, government can't be trusted to make long-term plans writes James Woodford.

THE war on water, if Morris Iemma is to be believed, is over. In order to keep the Premier's balloon afloat some very heavy political baggage was yesterday tossed over the edge of the wicker basket. A desalination plant was discarded, as was the plan to raise the Tallowa Dam wall. Both had outraged environmentalists. Tallowa Dam was outright water theft and justifiably appalled all those who live on the Shoalhaven - most significantly in Nowra. Desalination was effectively a greenhouse gas emission factory to be built by a Government priding itself on making big noises about the threats of climate change.

Sydney's underground lakes found

As originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 8^th, 2006.
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