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Look to Tasmania for water answers [1]

The Rudd Government is buying into the flawed plans to alleviate the water crisis. IT IS possible to have life without oil, but life without water is impossible for more than a few days. Given the impending water crisis you would think that, at the very least, the Rudd Government would have looked at all the alternatives before Water Minister Penny Wong announced a $13 billion investment program in "strategic water priorities" in a speech to the Annual Water Summit on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Age (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Murray [3], Desalination [4], Irrigation [5], Carbon Dioxide [6], Water Supply [7]
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply