Tweed Water Alliance

17/09/2025

Tonight 😊

05/09/2025

This is the formal event launching Jeremy's novel, but there are secret beers for TWA supporters at the Uki Pub on Tuesday September 9 at 6pm. Very informal. We'll have a drink to activist literature. Great pub food available. And of course there's the bigger event at Kombucha Cafe.

Hope to see you at one (or both) of them!

27/05/2025

Rusty Pickups gig is on at the Citadel, Murwillumbah on June 27.

Here's advance notice. They are a hot 'get up and dance' country / folk / a bit of Americana. They released a new record today!

Supported by 'Those Folk' - just as cool, just as fun.

As mates of ours they're donating $2 per ticket from this gig to Tweed Water Alliance.

Get your tickets here - they'll sell out fast. The band has given us first dibs on advance notice😎

https://events.humanitix.com/rusty-pick-ups-plus-those-folk-support

19/03/2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-alarming-discovery-health-impact-101513788.html

We don't yet know the full extent of the potential risks to human health.

17/02/2025

“There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than is running in our streams,”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/23/spanish-villages-people-forced-to-buy-back-own-drinking-water-drought-flood?fbclid=IwY2xjawIgjipleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZZPpam7y-v7G7XS6KD_OXG062tqD0egeNzquHUfIkD5qVhmNnICLoAwVw_aem_xN2XSZrTfu2Di32WSjg78g

12/02/2025

....and this is the feeble justification of granting such approvals all in the name of the Great Western Australian Mining addiction........
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2025-02-11%2Fformer-mayor-defends-30-year-water-deal-with-lynas%2F104909976%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2sQfFn8Rco7puGuf6baHvcKInrhZqn89pd2Jy_WH5yjI1OJy2zDqCe37M_aem_NSDAImAe6Pf4DluFpNTn4w&h=AT2ydczjWiRXQPSat-lyJuHdInbzIVdfLnDEWq4hVinP6E9ozFbLUuQMs7ItTS8I02PrwlmRAvZNn5xEAGeLc0kaZVI25wUv4s911xMnCv0oMOz9u1qJlJL3IbbhFFQ4mglv&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT1aGRQkc7EW-4L4er3qY6mt_Qcq4sYhx9C7ZwJKaIQptlZNwYFyRV1VR0plC-m0Uu-9sK42T634qpKQDOOqJ8Nd5KMalQm4JRN7G_821mZXK4i4c8YAjd2WO5hL08FiElsdO0kR8YRz7WXoJyQr7Wv9uz-Zw1S7MTfDI9c5j52jG68J1p2FZZap-KBXbSJhsua412b4x_sS9G-Q9w-0uSjinAlubw

A controversial deal with rare earths miner Lynas which left Kalgoorlie-Boulder facing ongoing water shortages has put a heightened focus on water security ahead of the WA election.

12/02/2025

This insidious pillage of groundwater resources is everywhere...........

Check out the latest attempt under consideration in the Perth Hills, where Coca Cola was granted unlimited free access to groundwater, at no cost.

A group has been formed to tackle their local Council and the landowner.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveperthhillswater/

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/tensions-over-water-extraction-in-perth-hills-bubble-to-the-surface-20250117-p5l5c9.html

A fresh bid to sell groundwater drawn from a bore in the Perth Hills has reignited a campaign in the community.

25/01/2025

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/perth-hills-residents-concern-groundwater-extraction/104851256?fbclid=IwY2xjawIBaQpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXBnoEj5M8rCBUdauvHTV3xRCYJs1HimBHa3dMeuLecZgUZk94xk1X5JGQ_aem_-mMjjNMJrmpGrY4t3_vuNA

The City of Kalamunda has received an application to extract 30 million litres of groundwater a year from a Pickering Brook orchard, and nearby residents are worried.

04/05/2024

Thanks to Jo for alerting us to this. In short, WA's water minister thinks the water mining industry is an awful idea. Just posted to ABC News.

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2024-05-04%2Fwa-minister-groundwater-rules-concern-coca-cola-bottled-water%2F103803170%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2vLuIak6mwtXEUIw3ntI6-UllzB5eiV67cOtBpVVucl8RtVLQInDVNJzY_aem_AVOJW-9jfz0zDgh4QKOS4FD9blV6lwJV0JP6qREd2sSfYu3L1gmGXq12855__3BdVAzGo5LkfFxQDk2e1FxQc1-h&h=AT3NDoLfsSIJEyEyEAPilMUJrXItOzJaQGCX41fH10LEQ6aqt3imew5UJYOxdKkkjHscqW03G1PCNHSQCrowfWj4LqNrOhylwGohp_SltMjRv0cecZUteQxdAiyir9nfZ5iX9A

Western Australia's Water Minister Simone McGurk says decades-old arrangements allowing millions of litres of groundwater to be extracted free of charge for sale as bottled water should be reviewed as the state faces a drying climate.

02/05/2024

Tonight Tweed Shire Council voted to refuse Eniflat's Development Application amendment to increase their annual water 'take' to 28Ml. The decision limits them to 5Ml.

Mayor Chris Cherry's amendment to ensure Council staff enforced the 5Ml limit was also endorsed - 6:1.

The Urliup operation was ordered to go back to 5Ml a year by the Land and Environment Court in 2019; they had until May 4 2022 to do this.

They didn't.

Now they have to. Let's see how this plays out and keep track of whether any enforcement happens.

The TWA Committee did the hard yards collating the information, getting advice from the Environmental Defender's Office and referring Tweed Shire Council to the Local Government Ombudsman.

How did bottled water ever become a 'thing' in a country with the best tap water in the world?

10/01/2024

A direct quote from today's Squiz newsletter

https://www.thesquiz.com.au/squiz-today/
Plastic bottles and bottled plastic
Still, sparkling, or nanoplastics? New research from Columbia and Rutgers unis in the US has found that bottled water contains an average of 240,000 pieces of nanoplastics for every litre. A nanoplastic is a particle that’s less than a micron in size, and for those without an advanced science degree, a micron is a millionth of a metre. For reference, human hair is roughly 70 microns in diameter... So these plastics are teeny-tiny, which leads to their next question - whether the bottled microplastics are harmful. The fear is that the nanoplastics are small enough to get into individual cells. Speaking up for bottled water was the International Bottled Water Association (who knew?), which said there was “no scientific consensus on the potential health impacts of nano and microplastic particles”. At any rate, reusable rather than single-use bottles are recommended by people who know about this stuff…

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