Water

Most lakes are kind of blue, but this lake in South Australia stands out for its super-bright colour that attracts tourists from around the country. But just why it is so blue and why it changes colour during the year are not well known.

The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation.

Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Kyle Chalmers is inspiring young and aspiring athletes, and speaking about the importance of mental health. 

The Environment Protection Authority investigates the death of hundreds of fish in the Tarwin River in Victoria's South Gippsland.

The federal inquiry into "forever chemicals" has asked the federal government to review its health advice on PFAS in light of the growing international consensus of its health risks.

Normally confined to four walls, the Land and Environment Court holds a site hearing in the NSW Southern Highlands to hear residents' concerns about a proposed recycling plant.

Completion of the South Australian government’s Northern Water desalination plant and water pipeline is now forecast to occur in 2032.

A date is set for snorkellers to return Ewens Ponds on South Australia's Limestone Coast, after low water flows caused its closure to the public.

More water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin will be purchased from farmers and irrigators in a renewed push by the federal government to return 450 gigalitres of water to the environment.

An Aboriginal elder has slammed Andrew Forrest as a state tribunal into plans to alter a WA river hears critical evidence.

Councils are voting to remove fluoride from drinking water — so why did we add it in the first place, and how can you protect your teeth if you're losing access to it?

A lawyer for billionaire Andrew Forrest questions an anthropologist's credibility over his opposition to plans to change a sacred Pilbara waterway.

The lack of reliable water sources outside the wet season across outback Queensland has some farmers looking towards hard-to-come-by irrigation allocations.

With sacred springs and water holes in northern WA drying up, the WA government decides to relocate where it is extracting groundwater from. 

Stinging eyes, dead plants and a "white" film over appliances are among water complaints in Western Australia's Murchison. 

Southern NSW rice and cotton growers are heading into one of their smallest summer cropping seasons in years, with tight water allocations forcing many to halve their plantings or sit the season out altogether.

The owners of Anna Creek Station, the biggest cattle station in the world, have been charged over allegedly building illegal dams on inland rivers and waterholes in outback South Australia.

Hughenden business owner Jodie Coward says she has not drank water straight from the tap in two years.

Blue-green algae levels at Lake Boga in Victoria's north-west are three times the safe limit.

For 50 years Geoff Looney has called the remote Indigenous community of Menindee in Far West New South Wales home. Thirty years ago he started recording information about birdlife in the region which has grown to more than 209 species recorded.