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Remarkable year, its wettest in data going back to 1859, a record the city broke with nearly three months of the year still left. few places have been harder hit than lismore, one of the most flood—prone places in new south wales, but even here, the floods in february were the worst they'd known. we literally had water coming up from the ocean, water coming down from the catchment, and 800 millilitres of rain in about 24 hours landing on top of lismore, and it was literally the perfect storm. you know, there's no doubt that there is an issue with climate change. when it comes to tropical cyc...

Present. it is evolved but it's the same mass. there was a latin mass that was instituted and set in stone for thousands plus years and that's the foundation of any mass you walk into today. some said vatican 2 wanted to get rid of that. no, benedict was at vatican 2 and said fathers of second vatican counsel wanted to preserve the latin but make it more accessible to people by bringing the english language or spanish language or the chinese language into the mass so that the people could participate more directly. however they never meant to throw out the gretsky gone chant or latin mass and ...

Are putting into them. 0ur agricultural land use has changed. poultry units just did not exist at the top of that catchment 15 years ago. what we've seen is a huge burst of poultry units in a very short amount of time, which has saturated that landscape. there are startling figures on the number of intensive poultry farms that have sprung up. powys council only started keeping records from 2018. but we discovered the rapid growth in intensive farming started a decade earlier. since 2008, planning has been extended to dozens of poultry farmers and barn extensions every year. today, there are no...

Muck from poultry farms. but only some of that is absorbed by crops. the rest is extra. you're left with a difference of about 3000 tonnes of phosphorus that is above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is nationally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you have too much phosphorus in your environment, it is likely that you are going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where soil phosphorus levels are very high, if not a little bit too high. so those are...

Are now at risk of extinction from salmon and sea trout. gail has over 20 years experience in the water industry. she says that farming and sewage are having a combined affect. it's much more than that direct species and habitats within the river. so our river is the source of drinking water, it's used by farmers as crop irrigation, it's used to feed cattle. we've just reached a point where rivers cannot cope any more with how they are being used and what we are putting into them. 0ur agricultural land use has changed. poultry units just did not exist at the top of that catchment 15 years ago....