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Severe infestations of blue-green algae in Sydney’s drinking water catchments have soared 800 per cent, according to an audit which warned climate change is putting the sensitive waterways under increasing threat from toxic blooms.

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By Peter Hannam August 19, 2020 - 12.02am

Another season of mass fish-kills looms across the Murray-Darling Basin with the threat coming from too little rain in the north and potentially too much in the south.

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PTA has recently appointed an agent in Serbia.  Krug International LTD will be responsible for the participation of laboratories from Serbia in PTA proficiency testing programs.

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Researchers who developed a way to test wastewater for coronavirus are now calling for the technology to be used to screen incoming planes and passenger ships.

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By Carrie Fellner July 25, 2020 - 12.02am

Asbestos has been discovered strewn along Central Coast beaches after erosion unearthed building waste buried in the dunes, years after authorities discovered the deadly fibre under a house that formerly belonged to disgraced Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.

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