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Since testing started in April, Sydney Water’s water map has attracted over 23,000 pageviews ... what is happening with their local water supply. The new mobile version is especially useful ...
WATER leaks, like the one that sparked transport chaos in the city this morning, will be mapped online in real-time. Sydney Water has launched the new online water map where readers can check ...
The Sydney Catchment Authority has closed a canal supplying 20 per cent of Sydney's water supply to the Prospect Reservoir after it found cryptosporidium in the water. Extensive amounts of ...
Sydney is running down its water supply at the fastest rate on record, with dams expected to fall below half maximum capacity due to the worst drought on record, the government said on Friday.
"Those swamps are a really important part of Sydney's water supply." Mr Clarke added that BHP, the company that runs the mine, had said water would reappear further downstream. But the NSW office ...
It will take between two to four days to fix the problem, with the 20 per cent of the water supply usually drawn from the southern Sydney dams now being drawn from Prospect Reservoir, the minister ...
Ash from raging bushfires could contaminate Sydney's drinking water with blazes closing in on a dam that holds 80 per cent of the city's supply. Two giant fires are burning on the north western ...
which provides water to about 80% of Sydney’s 5 million residents. “In recent days up to the cool change, the fires had been a potential threat to supply and assets, particularly in Warragamba ...
Sydney and Perth water supplies have had contrasting journeys over the last six years. In October 2013 Perth’s supply was a very low 33.8% and Sydney was a comfortable 91%. Now, for the first ...
On Sydney's doorstep lies an ancient landscape of deep eucalypt forests, waterfalls and dramatic sandstone gorges. The natural bushland of the Blue Mountains, according to UNESCO, is "of high ...
Just 15m of Warragamba Dam is full of treatable water. Picture: Gaye Gerard Sydney Water Supply and Product Head Ben Blayney said we were “one flood away from asking people to conserve water”.
"Those swamps are a really important part of Sydney's water supply." Mr Clarke added that BHP, the company that runs the mine, had said water would reappear further downstream. But the NSW office ...