Water management
Freshwater is the single most essential good for our well-being. Like a giant engine working day and night, the water cycle and inherent ecosystems are the life support of the planet.
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In Australia, we live in one of the driest continents in the world.
WWF convenes the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists to develop both scientific and sensible economic solutions to allow better management of Australia's precious fresh water resources, including our wetlands of national and international significance.
In 2004/5, WWF played a key role in the establishment of the National Water Commission which is charged with creating sustainable water use in Australia, and it will oversee implementation of the National Water Initiative.
We need to create vitally important public, political and corporate support to help find, implement and promote innovative and practical solutions for water use and fresh water biodiversity so that we can conserve the source of life in Australia.
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With a history of work at important sites across Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin and wetlands in the Kimberley region, our goal is that by 2010 the decline in Australia's fresh water biodiversity will have been reversed.
Recent Water management News
Conservation Priorities for Western Australia
The next Government of Western Australia has the opportunity and responsibility to secure some of Australia's most important biodiversity assets and ecosystem services. It is far cheaper to maintain our natural systems than it is to attempt to restore them. WWF has identified its priority conservation issues for Western Australia, and how these can be best addressed by the next Government.
Continue reading 'Conservation Priorities for Western Australia'
Rare snubfin dolphins on collision course
An alarming new study by WWF into one of the world's rarest and most threatened species has found two out of three snubfin dolphins in Roebuck Bay near Broome, Western Australia have been injured by boat strikes and fishing gear.
Inpex - new environmental assessment, same old attitude
A new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) produced by Inpex Browse Ltd, the company behind one of Australia's biggest resource projects - the Ichthys gas field, shows that the Kimberley coast, Browse Island and Scott Reef could be devastated by an oil spill from the project.
Critical marine habitats remain unprotected in Australian waters: report
Only a fraction of critical marine habitats for threatened whales, dolphins and turtles are protected in Australian waters due to weaknesses in the nation's premier environmental legislation, WWF and Humane Society International (HSI) warned today.
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