Environmentalists are calling for mining giant BHP to end its water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin when a major desalination plant is built in South Australia's north. The company currently ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: What is it about water - so much there, but so little available. In England, after the ...

The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...

So wrote Banjo Paterson in his Song of the Artesian Water, which tells the story of a desperate search for water in the Great Artesian Basin. A century after Paterson wrote those lines water is still ...

The Great Artesian Basin is huge and ancient underground “water tank” big enough to fill Sydney Harbour 130,000 times. It streches from Cape York down to Dubbo and further west than Coober Pedy and ...

Australia's Queensland state government announced today it will ban carbon capture and storage (CCS) in its portion of the Great Artesian Basin. Greenhouse gas (GHG) storage activities, including CCS ...

Leaders across southwest Queensland have let out a sigh of relief after a plan to capture and store carbon dioxide in the Great Artesian Basin was deemed ‘not suitable to proceed’, however the company ...

Politicians, farmers and industry leaders from across the state have met in Brisbane to express their concerns to the premier surrounding plans for a carbon capture project in the Great Artesian Basin ...

The mining company insists the storage hub is safe but many are unconvinced about injecting carbon dioxide into a major Australian water resource Swiss mining company Glencore has been on the ...

Wilmington, Delaware >> The Delaware River Basin Commission on Wednesday postponed consideration of an application by Artesian Water Company to withdraw water from the Broad Run well in New Garden ...