Browsing: Water

A council will incur clean-up, performance improvement and penalty costs totalling more than $1 million after failing to report a caustic soda spill from a sewage treatment plant.

Top greenhouse gas emitters are failing to properly disclose and manage their supply chain forest and water resource risks, according to an analysis prepared for institutional investors.

• Other coal miners do it too, Whitehaven says of water prosecution
  
• Spill prompts EPA inspection blitz at 27 Cleanaway facilities
  
• New soil carbon venture expects to expand base of high-profile supporters

The latest auction of credits under the NSW Hunter River salinity trading scheme has raised 67% more money than the previous auction.

It will take at least 25 years, and possibly up to 75 years, to fill the Latrobe Valley's three coal mine pits with water once mining ceases, according to a major new rehabilitation strategy released today by the Victorian government.

A new report by the NSW Auditor-General concludes the state government and Sydney Water have failed to act effectively on water conservation.

Regulations that require new developments to have "no net impact" on water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments have survived a disallowance motion.

Unilever overnight announced a new €1 billion climate and nature fund, and Nestlé has set new carbon and water goals.

The Federal Court today rejected the ACCC's arguments that Kimberly-Clark had misleadingly claimed its wet wipes were safe for sewerage systems, and criticised the Commission's tactics in the appeal hearing.

A utility is seeking EPA approval to install water recycling technology never before used in Australia in a housing estate that will consume 70% less potable water than a typical development and use half the energy.