The mayor of an outback town fears he will be “handing out water bottles” if harsh new measures can’t alleviate a contaminated water crisis. The Narrabri Shire Council on Wednesday enacted stage 4 ...

For the first time in five years, Walgett in north-western NSW is set to have access to safe drinking water — but a long-term staffing solution for the town's water treatment plant is yet to be found.

Commonwealth environmental water chief suspends all NSW releases until the state fixes flaws water diversion accounting. Two separate sources within the NSW Government confirmed they had seen a copy ...

Labor says plans ‘should never have been submitted’ by former Coalition government ‘because they were never going to get accredited’ The New South Wales government has withdrawn seven water resource ...

NSW and Victorian irrigators have cut their water use in half over the past 30 years, to below the Murray Darling Basin Plan targets. Applying trend lines to diversion records from the MDBA’s cap ...

An investigation is under way to determine how Lithgow Council allowed its water supply to run dry – sparking three days of no water for thousands of homes – in a disaster described by experts as a ...

Sydney 2GB radio host Ben Fordham grilled Kevin Anderson over the proposal to raise the Warragamba Dam wall by 14m, which was declared Critical State Significant Infrastructure by the NSW government ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Federal laws preventing illegal water trading have “more get-out-of-jail clauses than a Monopoly ...

The NSW government is copping it from all sides over the management of the Murray Darling water system and could face a number of reviews over the issue. NSW Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair ...