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.
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
Guest Writer: Susie Maroney
As a champion marathon swimmer, Susie has "swum not only in oceans, but rivers, dams, creeks and any big puddle of water in places most people don't even see." Susie is our Guest Writer for the current edition of the Futuremakers email, sharing her perspective of the changes in our waterways.
Whales set to chase shrinking feed zones as Southern Ocean warms
Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found.
Report values healthy oceans at $US21 trillion
Bonn, May 26, 2008: Oceans offer a vast bounty to humanity in terms of food, climate and coastal protection, medicine and new technologies but these assets are at risk due to very low levels of protection and over-exploitation, a new WWF-Germany study has found.
Coral Sea sharks could be "wiped out"
Healthy but isolated shark populations and other marine species in Australia's Coral Sea are particularly vulnerable and could be wiped out by future fishing operations unless the area receives adequate protection, two new pieces of research released today have warned.
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