Water Issues
Target 155 Water Saving Tip #1 - Stop Logging our Water Catchments
Logging in Melbourne's catchments costs billions of litres of water and it's time for the government to stop this. It's the least we should expect as water-saving voters.
Logging in Melbournes Water Catchment - the yarra tributaries
The majority of Melbourne’s water supply is sourced from water catchments located in the Central Highlands, east of Melbourne. Currently, five out of ten catchments in this network are subject to logging operations. Two issues stem from the contentious practice of logging in Melbourne’s water catchments.
Monash University June 2008
Prepared for TAMMY LOBATO Member for Gembrook
Logging in the Thompson Catchment
Logging is having a dramatic effect on our domestic water supply - but the only people paying for it are the tax payers.
Senate Inquiry into Rural Water Resource Usage
Senate Inquiry into Rural Water Resource Usage
Due 11th March 2003
The Terms of Reference for this inquiry are:
- current rural industry based water resource usage;
- options for optimising water resource usage for sustainable agriculture;
- other matters of relevance that the committee may wish to inquire into and comment on that may arise during the course of the inquiry, including the findings and recommendations from other inquiries relevant to any of the issues in these terms of reference.
- the Committee to make its report to the Senate on this matter by the last sitting day in 2003.