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I have collected here recent submissions from the Concerned Waterways Alliance, in celebration of the five year mark for the Alliance. During those five years the Alliance has grown in knowledge and understanding about the success and failings of water policy here in...

Here is a distillation of an interview with Anthony Despotellis, the Yarra Riverkeeper polystyrene officer. The interview was conducted just before he headed overseas.  Sources and solutions I first came on borard in March 2020 when I designed Nikki’s report...

In the patch of land I have behind a village on Western Port I am creating an ephemeral wetland, the most biodiverse of wetlands.

I wrote this piece awhile ago and it seemed timely to give it another airing. Sea elephants are beyond ordinary. They are something else! Sea elephants spend the most of their life (90%) underwater and, while clumsy on land, their blubber helps them resist pressures...

I am absolutely privileged to have a humble shack at the end of a dirt track on an island in Bass Strait. The island is a naturally contained natural ecosystem with inputs and outputs, and it is a social ecosystem or series of ecosystems with flows in and out. The...

Purposes of The Waterways Network (TWN) Yarra/Birrarung river Purposes Here are the purposes of The Waterways Network from our articles of association. I like them. Well, I wrote them with the excellent help of Christopher Bamford, one of the great editors. We put a...

What’s it all about Well what are these articles going to be about as part of these new and artfully updated website (thanks Cam).  Water Well, they are about water. They’re about water AND the environment. And the way water makes the environment possible. It...