The Big Australian is certain that extracting an additional 29 Optus Stadiums worth of groundwater from the Pilbara each year will have ‘no impact’ on water supply for WA residents.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
Perth residents who say they are trapped with ‘unsellable’ rural properties because of contaminated groundwater want their land fast-tracked for residential development.
Michael Palmer
Major water main upgrades are underway to improve supply and reduce leaks across Perth’s northern suburbs.
Liam Murphy
Manjimup shire president Donelle Buegge is set to chair the Warren Donnelly Water Advisory Committee after five years of service.
Craig Duncan
The national boss of contracting giant Acciona has knocked back worries about a Western Australian worker shortage as he reveals the company’s plans to chase AUKUS work and energy transition projects.
Matt Mckenzie
A potential budget blowout has been exposed in Labor’s vaunted Westport project, with concerns the desalination plant in Kwinana is too close to the dredging zone.
Jessica Page
Nanarup and Sandpatch have been earmarked as possible sites for a proposed desalination plant, with the Water Corporation saying the plant will be key to sustainable and reliable water for the Great Southern.
Jacki Elezovich
Royal Life Saving WA’s chief executive says the State Government needs to do ‘more instead of less’ when it comes to investment in drowning prevention after a VacSwim initiative was cut from the State Budget.
Caleb Runciman
A ‘once-in-a-generation’ cash injection of $543 million for the Goldfields pipeline will from 2027 double the water storage capacity of the Binduli Reservoir that supplies Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
The Premier said he cannot guarantee there won’t be another waste water pipe burst.
Oliver Lane
The first direct audit of the State’s water regulator in 16 years has found the department is undertrained, understaffed and not doing “anywhere near enough” to protect the State’s most important resource.
Simone Grogan
WA’s environmental regulator is putting its faith in Rio Tinto to adequately manage the potential for ‘severe’ asbestos contamination of drinking water.
Adrian Rauso
A Pilbara Traditional Owner group is adamant Rio Tinto is not moving quickly enough to reduce abstraction from Bungaroo Creek, despite the miner’s promise to build a bigger desalination plant.
One state has copped the highest number of water breach penalty notices as the independent regulator ratchets up its scrutiny of landholders.
Staff Writers
A Mineral Resources subsidiary run by Chris Ellison’s brother is facing punishment for building solar evaporation ponds at its cash-draining garnet mine near Kalbarri.
Water molecules began forming shortly after the first supernova explosions, according to a new study.
Ben Mitchell
A drainage ditch in Perth’s northern suburbs that a Labor member has boasted over as part of his election campaign has cost taxpayers more than 10 times the promised amount.
Matt McKenzie
Plans to install a desalination plant in Albany’s King George Sound have been scrapped with all three major political parties committing to canning the idea.
Melissa Sheil
The Minister for Water has responded to community opposition to a desalination plant proposed by Water Corporation for Frenchman Bay, saying she remains “absolutely committed” to finding the best solution
Protesters took advantage of a State minister’s visit to Albany on Tuesday, parking themselves on the road outside his press conference to ask for his help in opposing a desalination plant in Frenchman Bay.
A young man has died in hospital after he was caught in a rip at a popular Perth beach last week, with his family now faced with the task of getting his body home to Samoa.
Police are cracking down on illegal behaviour on party boats, conducting random checks on licence breaches and the responsible service of alcohol.
Locals have sounded the alarm on a plan to put a desalination plant in the King George Sound amid fears the deposits of briny wastewater pose an “existential threat” to the south coast’s delicate ecosystem.
Two divers have died just hours apart in a tragic day along the Perth coast.
Caitlyn Rintoul
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