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The 'Indigenous climate, weather and culture' link will take you to an overview of the relationships between language, culture and environmental knowledge and provides context for the website. Go to the 'About the IWK Project' link to learn more about the Indigenous Weather Knowledge project and the Bureau of Meteorology's commitment to strengthening respectful and collaborative relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 
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River flooding will affect more people and cause significantly more damage by 2030, as climate change and socioeconomic development accelerate. In South Asia alone, an estimated 15 million will be affected, say experts.
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Studies using NASA GRACE data find a third of Earth's largest groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted by human use, despite little data about how much water remains.
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A major national effort to desalinate Mediterranean seawater and to recycle wastewater has provided the country with enough water for all its needs.
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Overcoming water scarcity Australian Curriculum The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042) GeoWorld 7 Chapter 4: Nature of water scarcity and strategies Chapter 5: Management strategies: making every drop count
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A non-profit in Mexico City suggests using rainwater harvesting to remedy the city's water shortage.
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AC: The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it (ACHGK040) GeoWorld 7 Chapter 4: The nature of water scarcity and strategies
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very good case study and links to other issues investigating the big questions over biodiversity v human demand Via rednockhums, Sally Egan
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AC: The economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and peoples of the Asia region (ACHGK041) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 2: The value of water
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AC: The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it (ACHGK040) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies Chapter 5: Management strategies: making every drop count
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AC: The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037) The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places (ACHGK038) The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 1: Environmental resources and water Chapter 2: Values of water Chapter 4: Nature of water scarcity and strategies
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AC: The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037) The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places (ACHGK038) The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 1. Environmental resources and water Chapter 2.Values of water Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies Chapter 5.Management strategies: making every drop count
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to launch an action plan to protect the quality of its scarce water resources after years of rapid economic growth that have left much of its water supply too polluted for...
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After four years of nowhere near enough rain, Californians are wondering where else to look for water, and many are talking about the ocean -- desalination. The problem is, it’s really expensive to turn salt water into drinking water. Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Australian Curriculum The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) Geoworld 7 Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies Chapter 5 : Management strategies: making every drop count
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It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert.
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U.N. report: Countries across the globe could suffer a 40 percent water deficit in only 15 years
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The heavily polluted Ganges in India needs a clean-up operation, but activists must honour the river’s spiritual significance to succeed where others have failed
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Values of water
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Six Indigenous language groups worked with CSIRO to create a series of calendars representing Indigenous seasonal and ecological knowledge.
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The "Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers," with Right Livelihood Award Winner Nnimmo Bassey, explores the impacts of climate change and hydropower on the world'...
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Australian Curriculum The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies (4.7 - 4.9 Dams)
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A group of stormchasers captured some beautiful and terrifying footage of a supercell thunderstorm developing over Wyoming this weekend.
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AC: The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042) GeoWorld 7 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Hydrological and atmospheric hazards and responses
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Influences on weather & climate - the water cycle.
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Cox Rayner Architects and Aurecon have designed a new generation of flood-resilient ferry terminals in Brisbane. The completed terminal at Milton is the first of many to be rolled out along the Brisbane River in 2015. The flood resilient terminal design has been inspired by the way private pontoons simply float over their piers in a flood. Michael Rayner, director of Cox Rayner, called on his own experience in the 2011 floods in designing a terminal that could also deflect debris. The design features a pier that provides commuters with panoramic views of the Brisbane River, with the pontoon essentially tethered to the pier via the gangway. During a flood, the gangway slides across the pier as the river rises and detaches. It then swings with the current of the flood waters, secured to the side of the pontoon, to avoid the build-up of debris. The gangway incorporates a unique floor which maintains level whatever the tide. The pontoon, which is anchored at the downstream end, features a hull-shaped base that allows flood waters to flow underneath it unhindered. Via Lauren Moss
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AC:The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042) Geoworld 7: Chapter 6. Hydrological and atmospheric hazards and responses. 6.6 Queensland's floods.
Kris Homann's curator insight,
March 18, 2015 3:53 AM
Brisbane has been my home for my entire adult life. I moved here the day I graduated high school and will most likely live here the rest of my life.
As a city, Brisbane has had it’s fair share of major incidents, the most notable of late the 2011 floods. In some ways, we are still feeling the flow on effects from this today, as can be seen in this article, they have had to completely redesign the ferry terminals to cope with future flood events, and as a result of the floodings, insurance companies were forced to change their policies to cover flood events .
Another recent OHS issue that is becoming more prominent is traffic in the city. Roads everywhere are congested because they can’t cope with the traffic volumes, people are more and more starting to ride push bikes on roadways, that are not designed to be shared use, so the incidents of vehicle to bike accidents has skyrocketed.
Both the floods and the bicycle usage have caused many OHS issues to come up, some of which are how to make the roads safer, and less congested, how do we flood proof our beautiful city, and how do we do this without having a negative impact on the people who are required to do the work to implement these changes.
Widening roads is a dangerous situation for the workers, and one that has caused concern in the past, especially with impatient drivers who refuse to slow down through traffic works effectively putting the lives of the workers at risk. So how do we do this safely, and how do with do it with minimal obstruction to already overturned roadways?
That is something I would like to find out.
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AC:The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) Geoworld 7 : Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies
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Rwanda is susceptible to a wide range of disaster threats, including floods, droughts, strong storms and volcanic eruptions. In the past two decades, some 2 million people have been affected by these and other climate-induced hazards.
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
AC: The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHGK040) The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042) GeoWorld 7: Chapter 4. Nature of water scarcity and strategies Chapter 6. Hydrological and atmospheric hazards and responses
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What's it going to take to get people to use a lot less water in drought-stricken California, the Technicolor landscape of lush yards, emerald golf courses and aquamarine swimming pools?
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Hidden in an unknown corner of China is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, gadgets and green tech, discovers Tim Maughan.
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Water pollution caused by rare earth mineral mining
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Three African leaders sign an initial deal to end a long-running dispute over the sharing of Nile waters and the building of Africa's biggest hydroelectric dam.
Kevin Cournoyer's curator insight,
May 6, 2015 7:22 PM
This article discusses the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the construction of a dam that would provide Ethiopia with a larger share of the Nile's water. Egypt is wholly opposed to this dam because it would mean less water for the country, which so desperately needs it. With 95% of the population of Egypt living within 20km of the Nile River, a reduction in the amount of water supplied to these tens of millions could potentially spell slow disaster. At the same time, however, Ethiopia desperately needs water from the Nile in order to provide sustainable energy for its citizens.
The Nile has been a source of life and energy for thousands of years in an oppressively hot, dry place. The ancient Egyptians counted on the Nile to flood every year so that they would have arable land and used the large river to irrigate their farmland. It is almost ironic, therefore, that Egyptians are once again counting on the water of the Nile to help them survive in such a harsh climate. It seems that the Nile is one of those natural geographic features that is pivotal to political, economic, and social wellbeing. It represents the nexus between natural landforms and the political and economic goals of human beings and nations. Dispute over use of the Nile as a natural and life-giving resource is not the first instance of human debate over possession or use of natural geography and it likely won't be the last. 
Adrian Bahan (MNPS)'s curator insight,
March 31, 2016 11:57 AM
85% of the Nile's water comes from the Blue Nile that originates in the Ethiopian highlands--it is the Blue Nile that Ethiopia has been working on damming since 2011. The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be located near the border with Sudan (see in Google Maps). Prior to this trilateral agreement, Egypt and Sudan received the majority of the Nile's waters because of outdated colonial-era treaties that ignored upstream riparian states. This explains why in the past, Egypt was so adamantly opposed to Ethiopia's plan fearing that their water supply with be threatened. Today though, the Egyptian President said, "We have chosen cooperation, and to trust one another for the sake of development." Tags: Ethiopia, Africa, supranationalism, political, development, environment, water, energy, borders. 
brielle blais's curator insight,
May 1, 2018 10:45 PM
This article shows how important it is for countries to have good relationships with one another. This is an example of political geography. Diverting the Nile would help Ethiopia immensely, producing electricity and providing a water source. Egypt and Sudan were able to create a compromise and agree to share, and a long dispute is now over.
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