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
Conservation Priorities for Western Australia
The next Government of Western Australia has the opportunity and responsibility to secure some of Australia's most important biodiversity assets and ecosystem services. It is far cheaper to maintain our natural systems than it is to attempt to restore them. WWF has identified its priority conservation issues for Western Australia, and how these can be best addressed by the next Government.
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Safe haven or supermarket: shark populations decline while we wait
WWF is urging the Federal Government to make 'the Serengeti of the Sea', Australia's Coral Sea, a safe haven for threatened sharks and hundreds of other marine species.
Raiding nurseries could spell disaster for hammerhead population
WWF-Australia is calling on the Queensland Government to block the establishment of targeted shark fisheries in its waters because so little is known about the sustainability of shark populations.
Research into rare dolphin may uncover new subspecies in Australia
A research project aimed at understanding more about the rare and elusive snubfin dolphin could be on the verge of identifying a new species of dolphin living in waters just north of Broome, in north-west Australia.
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