Australia's Snowy River has had the first of 38 Gigalitres of water added to it this week. Its current flow of between one and two percent of its original flow is a barometer of the use and effects of settlement, industrialization and the growing environmental problems facing us. The Age newspaper , Challenges ahead as Snowy flows again and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Snowy River to flow again cover the story.
In the same week, the New York Times presents an excellent multimedia presentation on the global problems of water as our most precious natural resource.
[From the Archive:]
 In 1995, Noel Brown, Head of the United Nations Environment Programme visited with colleagues at Broadford, Victoria, studying our use of telecommunciations in education. During that meeting he warned that future wars of the 21st centruy would be fought over our most basic resource, water.
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