Forecasters are predicting up to 800mm of rain in 48 hours in Queensland and NSW as the cyclone unleashes chaos along the east coast of the country. Renee Thompson, acting water delivery manager ...

Cullen Gunn, chief executive of Kilter Rural, which operates one of the biggest water funds in Australia, says the trading system has shown it can withstand both prolonged drought and flooding, and ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the side of a road somewhere in southeastern Australia sits a man in a motionless pickup truck, considering the many ...

It covers more than a million square kilometres and provides water to more than 3.6 million people. But despite the investment of billions of dollars and 30 years of policy reforms, new research ...

Residents in parts of South Australia, Victoria and western NSW are dealing with continued dry weather. Experts say water would not likely make its way far south following ex-Tropical Cyclone ...

Queensland is bracing for Biblical rainfalls at the top of one of the biggest sources of the Murray-Darling’s water. But will it make it this far? See what the expert thinks. Forecasters are ...