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Community leader Patricia Riley’s daughter drank tap water while pregnant, only to be told it contained unsafe levels of nitrate

Large swaths of some of the state’s best farmland could be opened up for coal seam gas development, resulting in the extraction of many gigalitres of groundwater.

Sydney desalination plant churning out water even as dams remain full We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Sydney’s $2.3 billion desalination plant is continuing to supply 50 million litres of a water a day just weeks after the city’s dams spilled and storage levels remain near full. New figures from WaterNSW also show Sydney’s main dam at Warragamba collected 1212 gigalitres of inflows from t...

The NSW south coast still bears the devastating scars of the horror 2020 fire season despite regrowth in the bush.

Battle over Wyangala Dam and its downstream impacts is just beginning We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size On a summer’s evening, as the setting sun paints a flock of straw-necked ibises a glowing pink as they wing their way over Lake Cowal, it’s not hard to imagine Mal Carnegie has landed a dream job. As manager of a conservation centre monitoring NSW’s largest inland natural freshwater lake, the 56-ye...

No let-up likely for Kean as environmental challenges keep mounting We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement If Matt Kean, NSWs Energy and Environment Minister, thought conservation groups would cut him some slack in 2021 after last years successes, he might be disappointed. Yes, his energy road map sets the state on track to lure three times as much renewables into the grid than the existing Snowy Hydro scheme. And Kea...

Advertisement Authorities have started releasing water from Sydneys largest dam after steady recent rains pushed the levels to almost full capacity with more showery days to come. In stark contrast to a year ago when water levels at Warragamba Dam fell below 43 per cent full, the reservoir has hovered in the mid-90 per cent capacity since it began spilling last August. It was 97.8 per cent full on Wednesday with Sydneys network of dams sitting at 94.6 per cent capacity. Warragamba Dam has begun...