Catchment Detox
The audio accompaniment for the Catchment Detox AUstralian National Science project. A river catchment simulator developed by ABC Science Online with ABC Local Radio, CSIRO and the Australian Government.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2008
Where to now?
We all live in catchments and how that catchment behaves is often down to us. So this final episode is a wake up call and it takes place in a catchment that's the focus of so much national concern - …
00:05:26 |
Thu 04 Sep 2008
Catchments and communities
In this penultimate part of the series we gather the thoughts, concerns and fears of people living in catchments under stress. Some of these people are dealing with too much water as their homes face…
00:05:21 |
Wed 03 Sep 2008
The Burdekin River
Michael and Helen travelled to the Qld sugarcane region around the Burdekin River. In wet season, this river handles a massive amount of water that empties onto the Great Barrier Reef. In dry, the Bu…
00:05:28 |
Tue 02 Sep 2008
Dams
Dams - they're vital in many communities to supply water for domestic and agriculture. However building one is not always as straight forward as it appears. In this report Michael Mackenzie takes a c…
00:05:28 |
Mon 01 Sep 2008
Permanent vs annual
With an uncertain water future, can we risk continuing to plant permanent crops like citrus and grapes? Irrigators like Robert Mansell and Warren Lloyd have inherited a long time family tradition, an…
00:05:28 |
Sun 31 Aug 2008
Managed investment scheme
The scarcity of water in many catchments has brought old resentments bubbling to the surface between managed investment schemes and family farms, who accuse the corporates of not being true horticult…
00:04:08 |
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Mt Gambier
While trees are good for the environment they do compete with other agricultural enterprises for water. Visit one of the country's biggest plantation timber regions at South Australia's Mt Gambier to…
00:05:05 |
Wed 27 Aug 2008
An acid apocalypse
For some places around the country it's almost too late to save them. Nothing lives or grows in the acid sulfate soil and waters of Bottle Bend Lagoon, an oxbow lake that only connects to the main ri…
00:05:26 |
Tue 26 Aug 2008
Coorong and the lower lakes
No part of any catchment typifies the decades of policy neglect and mismanagement more than the lower lakes and Coorong in South Australia. This is where the water-starved Murray River empties into L…
00:05:26 |
Mon 25 Aug 2008
Owls, rats and macadamias
Meet a highly successful macadamia farmer, Martin Brook from Brookfarm, Bangalow, who discovered a small remnant of rainforest on his property. In twenty years he's planted thousands of trees and the…
00:05:26 |
Sun 24 Aug 2008
Listen to Tim on how to play the game
Tim Stubbs introduces the Catchment Detox game
00:26:23 |
Wed 13 Aug 2008
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