Word: queensland
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Rosemary morley doesn't deny that Toowoomba's water problem is grim. Like everyone else in this parched southeast Queensland city, she's been living with tough water restrictions for nearly three years. But the 60-year-old former president of the local chamber of commerce is sure she's being duped by Toowoomba authorities when it comes to a solution-and she's not alone. More than 10,000 people have signed a petition rejecting the local council's proposal to make the 95,000-strong community the first in Australia to supplement its drinking water supply by adding...
...Elsewhere, Australians are embracing water recycling as never before. Better public awareness and water restrictions in many communities have cut usage rates. The reuse of water for irrigation and industry is increasing. And a raft of recycling projects, such as Queensland's Western Corridor Recycled Water scheme-which, as the Southern Hemisphere's largest such pipeline, will supply power stations with about 110 million liters of recycled water a day from 2008-promise huge water savings. But while spraying such water on cotton crops or golf courses has widespread support, the notion of pouring it into a glass still makes...
...deceptively beautiful: the Aboriginal bailer shell was drawn from a collection at the British Museum where a friend of Watson's was working last decade, and her work is about the sometimes painful process of cultural retrieval. Watson, 46, who traces her lineage to the Waanyi country of northwest Queensland, calls her blue "the liquid color of dreams." In this case bittersweet ones, for Watson's work expresses the disquiet indigenous Australians can feel in seeing their ancient artefacts in foreign collections. Acid-etched across the front window, the artist's museum piece seeks to challenge "the ethnographic perceptions...
...Though all these factors would have helped the pair stay calm while trapped, they may have little bearing on whether the men experience psychological ill effects in the future. "It wasn't in their interests to lose it [while they were underground]," says University of Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but a lot of people, once they're in a safe place, experience a more intense emotional response." The danger for Webb and Russell is post-traumatic stress disorder, whose many and varied symptoms can take up to a decade to emerge. Relative levels of stoicism aren't pointers...
...Queensland-based International Centre for Ecotourism Research this year calculated that outdoor tourism?which includes both eco- and adventure tourism?accounts for about one-quarter of Australia's tourism industry and generates about $14 billion in annual revenue. Since ecotourism became a buzzword in the early 1990s, the market for it has stabilized, says center director Ralf Buckley. "Tourists are coming to expect that tourism providers will have good environmental management practices," he says. "They want luxury, but they expect that tourism operators will be doing whatever they can to minimize impact...