Ballarat Mayor Judy Verlin has thrown her support behind the fluoridation of the city’s water supply.
The Department of Health will add fluoride to the water supply from November 16.
Councillor Verlin says she has listened to both sides of the fluoride debate and personally believes that adding fluoride to Ballarat’s water supply is a good idea.
“I [...]

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An outbreak of toxic blue-green algae has been confirmed in the Lower Darling River placing the area around Burtundy on a red level alert for algae.
The algae can cause gastroenteritis and skin and eye irritations and the water is unsuitable for recreation or domestic use and may also pose a threat to livestock.
Blue-green algae levels [...]

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Over the next five years $18 million will be spent by an exploration company trying to find geothermal water wells in western Victoria.
Hot Rock has been granted a permit by the State Government to explore the area stretching from Casterton to Clear Lake in order to build a power plant on.
Drilling is expected to start halfway through [...]

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Water allocation projections have been revised by the South Australian Government this year.
In the last July forecast, there was an even chance that allocations would rise to 52 per cent by the end of November.
That has now been changed to an even chance of a 28 per cent allocation.
The Water Department says the change is based on [...]

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AAAI’s new website
The AAAI Group has launched its new website at www.aaai.com.au. They have made their website easier to navigate, more user friendly and have added a range of new features. The new site features a streamlined navigation system which now only contains four main sections, helping candidates get to what you want faster. They [...]

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The first water allocations for 2008 to 2009 have been announced for the Murray and Murrumbidgee valleys.
There is an available water determination of 25 per cent for high security users in the Murray Valley and 30 per cent for those in the Murrumbidgee Valley, say the Department of Water and Energy.
In a statement, the department’s [...]

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The Victorian Government is making it mandatory for all government schools to audit their water use in an attempt to reduce unnecessary water usage and encourage efficient water use habits.
Roughly 400 schools have voluntarily taken part in the schools water efficiency program and on average, they have cut their water use by 13 per cent.
The program will cost [...]

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There will be no polls of country communities before fluoride is introduced to their water under a Victorian Government initiative.
About 40 community members turned out to meetings in Swan Hill and Kerang this week, but the department says they were information meetings, not consultation sessions.
It says the turnout is low because public opinion generally supports [...]

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The Victorian Government has closed a local road near the desalination plant site at Wonthaggi after protesters halted work at the site earlier this week.
Three members of the Your Water Your Say Action Group have been charged with obstruction after Tuesday’s protest.
Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) manager of stakeholder relations, Greg Meyer, says the [...]

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Victoria’s biggest water and energy users will be required to come up with a plan to cut their consumption.
More than 250 sites across Victoria, including hospitals, shopping centres, the Melbourne Zoo and universities, will be affected.
The Environment Minister Gavin Jennings says the program will deliver net savings.
Mr Jennings says the new Environment and Resource Efficiency [...]

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