Sentences with phrase «basin environmental water»

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Under the basin authority's $ 9 billion draft plan, released in November, an extra 2750 billion litres of water in the Murray - Darling river system would be set aside for environmental use, mostly through buying back irrigators» water rights.

Information collected from the monitoring will inform adaptive environmental water management in the Macquarie Marshes and at other important waterbird locations across the basin.

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The analysis, coupled with reporting by our environmental reporter Dan Telvock, painted a picture of a beach whose waters rest in a harbor basin contaminated with PCBs and whose neighbors include two Superfund sites that are leaching toxins into Lake Erie and the Outer Harbor.

Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of environmental retirement account — an additional supply of water they can raid to get through the driest years and make up for the chronic overuse of the rivers themselves.

To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.