Tomorrow is World Environment Day. Perhaps a time to reflect on what has been achieved in terms of environmental protection including controls on pollution? A lot of time and money has been invested in improving water quality in our rivers and streams – is water quality improving?
If I were to nominate specific areas of environmental need, high on my list would be better monitoring programs including easy access to data from these monitoring programs so we can understand how things are trending over time – on water quality, the state of our National Parks, Murray Cod numbers, Koala numbers.
For example, what about daily information on water quality in rivers and streams being publicly available?
Couldn’t this most basic of information be reported daily in our newspapers and online – perhaps in the same way information is reported on commodity prices?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.