Drinking Water
In a remote Kimberley community, a mother describes how she must boil water before her children can drink it."Good water, only for adults, not for babies. You have to boil it for babies and kids.
The NT's Court of Appeal confirmed this week that the NT government, through its public housing landlord, is legally required to supply water for its tenants, and the water supplied must be safe for d...
Land Councils in the Northern Territory have criticised the CLP government's decision to enact "significant" changes to water allocation plans without prior consultation with Traditional Owners.
The Northern Territory government will challenge a ruling that found it is legally responsible for providing safe drinking water to its tenants, many of whom live in remote Indigenous communities, in...
The small Lama Lama community in far north Queensland has received critical funding to help facilitate a reliable water supply after generations of challenges, one of a host of remote communities acro...
Cherbourg residents have dealt with unreliable and dangerous water supplies for decades, enduring frequent warnings to boil their tap water or rely on bottled water exclusively.
The discovery of worms in tap water in a Kimberley Aboriginal community has brought sharp focus on the provision of water infrastructure and services in the region, revealing very little of a $350 mil...
The federal and Northern Territory governments are working in partnership to close the gap in housing for First Nations communities across the NT.
A remote Indigenous community in the Fitzroy Valley, in WA's far north, has gone into day two of having no water supply, locals say. Resident Natalie Davey said on Monday that the situation had been r...
Western Australia's state-owned water supplier failed to properly notify a remote Aboriginal community that potentially deadly amoeba and bacteria had been detected in their system, local Indigenous l...
Residents of Wangkatjungka community, 130km south-east of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia's Kimberley region, have taken to social media to raise concerns about the quality of the drinking water...
The Pintupi people of the Kiwirrkurra community, a shire in eastern Pilbara in Western Australia, have not had access to clean running water, a basic human right, for three years.
Water quality in a Central Australian community has improved following the installation of a long-awaited water treatment plant. The Laramba Water Treatment Plant was officially opened on Wednesday, w...