Overview and Background Few cities are shaped by water as profoundly, or as paradoxically, as Brisbane. The city exists in a constant cycle of extremes: flood and drought, abundance and scarcity, panic and complacency. In some years, water arrives with devastating force, swallowing streets, homes, and entire neighborhoods. In others, […]
Physical Geography Alice Springs, known as Mpartnwe to its original inhabitants, is a city of nearly 26,000 inhabitants in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the largest city in the arid desert region of Central Australia and the third largest city in the Northern Territory. It receives on average […]
INTRODUCTION The focus city of this report is Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland State in north-east Australia, and the third most populous city in Australia with over 1 million residents. Brisbane is a water-smart and water-wise city that “manages water at all stages of the water cycle and is […]