Concerns about sewage discharge in Sydney’s drinking water catchment

An urban water scientist is raising concerns about the quality of treated effluent discharged at sewage treatment plants…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Mittagong #NSWEPA #Pollution #sewagetreatmentplants #sewerage #STP #studyonpollutioningreatersydneywater #Sydney #WarragamaDam #watercatchment
https://www.newsbeep.com/43001/

The household kiddo got given some new shapes of magnetic building tiles. Naturally, the adults snatched them up immediately to do barn design mockups.

We had two sort of small/medium horses when we first moved here, so we built a barn that’s really more of a large run-in shed to start with. We built it in a hurry and we built it cheaply, but it has kept the rain, wind, and sleet off the ponies for about 6 years now.

The thing is, last fall we adopted two new horses, and one of them is a Very Large draft horse. Now they could technically all fit in the barn, if they packed themselves in there like sardines. Some horses will totally do that. These four prefer a bit of personal space, so they use the barn as a time-share.

That’s been okay so far. Nobody has been cold. The one who needs a blanket is happy to wear a blanket. The rest of them are hairy enough to cope with the weather. But.

It would sure be nice to have a bigger shelter for them.

We’re thinking we’re just going to add another stretched hexagon to the current stretched hexagon. And actually put real roofing on, not just a tarp. Maybe we can get around to setting up rainwater catchment and filtering up there, too.

#MagneticTiles #BarnRaising #HopesAndDreams #HexaYurt #WaterCatchment #homesteading

One Community's Rainwater Harvesting Hub offers open-source methods for sustainable water catchment, harvesting, and swale building. Integrated into all village models, City Center, food, and energy systems, it supports global collaboration for self-sufficiency.

https://onecommunityglobal.org/water-conservation/

#RainwaterHarvesting #WaterCatchment #Sustainability #OpenSource #SwaleBuilding #SelfSufficiency #GlobalCollaboration #WaterConservation #EcoLiving #OneCommunity

The Tropical Atrium Water Catchment page offers open-source, free-shared tutorials on water catchment, conservation, and recycling. Initially, we'll refine and demonstrate this strategy with the 3-dome cluster crowdfunding, then expand it for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City Center®, and other villages.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/tropical-atrium-water-catchment/

#WaterCatchment #SustainableLiving #OpenSourceSolutions #RainwaterHarvesting #WaterConservation #EcoBuilding #TropicalAtrium #GreenInfrastructure

This Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Hub supports One Community’s open-source strategies for sustainable living. Integrated into villages, food systems, and energy infrastructure, it offers duplicable methods for water management to inspire global collaboration for the Highest Good.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/water-conservation/

#RainwaterHarvesting #WaterCatchment #SwaleBuilding #SustainableLiving #OpenSource #Permaculture #WaterConservation #GlobalCollaboration #Sustainability

Leave it in the ground
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/07/wheres-the-accountability-indigenous-elders-decry-irreparable-coalmine-damage-to-heritage-site

#FirstNations #fossilfuels #watersupply
#dendrobium #illawarra
#JuukanGorge #RioTinto

#Sydney is among the few cities anywhere in the world to allow mining within its #watercatchment areas. Scientists have argued for years that the longwalls were causing cracks to reach the surface, diverting water away from some of the 1,000 upland swamps in the #Woronora plateau and reducing inflows into nearby dams.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720383054?dgcid=author

Centennial #Coal plan to release more water into #Sydney #watercatchment will make #pollution worse. This is our #drinkingwater #ffs #mining

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-07/water-contamination-lithgow-coal/103067856

https://www.ted.com/talks/nalini_nadkarni_conserving_the_canopy

#biodiversity #biology #mosses #Bryophytes #canopy #conservation #rainforest #forest #cloudforest #trees #climatechange
#Green #Prison Reform Project
#sustainability
#organic #gardening
#worms #wormCulture #compost #composting
#recycling
#water #waterConservation #waterCatchment
#bees #beekeeping