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David Salt
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Writer, editor, storyteller
Canberra, Australia
conservation, sustainability, water & resilience
https://sustainabilitybites.com/ & https://www.globalwaterforum.org/
There's no such thing as a free lunch
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Dbytes #695 (12 Nov 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Banking on rainforest destruction
2. Aust’s environment reforms must restore what’s been lost
3. State of the Cryosphere Report
4. EPBC drops the ball on protection

And more
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Dbytes #695 (12 November 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Banking on rainforest destruction 2. Where’s nature positive? Australia must ensure environment reforms work to restore what’s been lost 3. State of the Cryosphere Report…
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The Delta #94 (12 Nov 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. Mapping Water in Brazil’s Soy & Beef Exports
2. State of the Cryosphere
3. Climate Resilience Through Water Security
4. Saving the sacred Millstream aquifer

and more
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The Delta #94 (12 November 2025) - The Delta
In the wash up of this issue of The Delta 1.* Mapping the Water Behind Trade: New Insights from Brazil’s Soy and Beef Exports to the EU and China 2. State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 3.* Building Cl...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Dbytes #695 (12 Nov 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Banking on rainforest destruction
2. Aust’s environment reforms must restore what’s been lost
3. State of the Cryosphere Report
4. EPBC drops the ball on protection

And more
bit.ly/49NiK0a
Dbytes #695 (12 November 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Banking on rainforest destruction 2. Where’s nature positive? Australia must ensure environment reforms work to restore what’s been lost 3. State of the Cryosphere Report…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Mapping the Water Behind Trade: New Insights from Brazil’s Soy and Beef Exports to the EU and China

Roughly half of the water used for soy and beef exports to the EU, and 20% of water exports to China came from basins already facing high or critical water scarcity.

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Mapping the Water Behind Trade: New Insights from Brazil’s Soy and Beef Exports to the EU and China - Global Water Forum
It’s a fact often ignored by consumers but the food we eat takes water to produce. If that food was produced overseas, then the trade of that food is effectively exporting water between countries. Raf...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Dbytes #694 (5 Nov 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Carbon Offsets Are Failing - New Plan to Save Rainforests
2. Great Barrier Reef’s Role in Australia’s Economy
3. 2025 state of the climate report
4. Labor’s environmental law overhaul

And more
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November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Building Climate Resilience Through Water Security: A Case for US–Pakistan Cooperation

Escalating and compound climate challenges are hurting Pakistan. There’s a need for increased international funding to help the nation speed up its transformation for a sustainable future

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Building Climate Resilience Through Water Security: A Case for US–Pakistan Cooperation
Despite being a small contributor to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Pakistan is in the top ten of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the growing climate crisis. It is already experiencing...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Delta #93 (29 Oct 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. Large Dams: A Tale of Two Countries
2. Global estimates of hail hazard
3. Archaeology in the Service of Wetland Recovery
4. Influence of Climate Model Uncertainty on Adaptation
and more

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The Delta #93 (29 October 2025) - The Delta
In the wash up of this issue of The Delta 1.* Large Dams: A Tale of Two Countries 2. Global estimates of damaging hail hazard 3.* Archaeology in the Service of Wetland Recovery – Local Wetland restora...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Dbytes #693 (29 Oct 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Bat boxes can become deadly roosts
2. Birds killed by cats in Canada
3. Billfish citizen science
4. Global tipping points report 2025

And more
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Dbytes #693 (29 October 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Bat boxes can become deadly roosts when the weather heats up 2. An updated estimate of the number of birds killed by outdoor cats in Canada 3. From reels to research: Mot…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Large Dams: A Tale of Two Countries

Both China and India have thousands of years of experience on how to manage water to reduce the impacts of serious floods and droughts. Empires have fallen in both countries when the Kings have failed to manage water properly.

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Large Dams: A Tale of Two Countries
Both China and India have thousands of years of experience on how to manage water to reduce the impacts of serious floods and droughts. Empires have fallen in both countries when the Kings have failed...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Dbytes #692 (22 Oct 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Big surprise – mass deforestation
2. Aust tropical forests flip from carbon sink to source
3. Multiple-use spatial planning for conservation
4. Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

And more
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October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Dbytes #691 (15 Oct 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Dingo impacts on sheep industry
2. Feral Horses and Their Impacts in the Aust Alps
3. Industry-specific environ reforms undermine regulatory effectiveness
4. Aust orchids suffer rapid pollination decline
And more

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Dbytes #691 (15 October 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Historic accounts of the impact of dingoes on South Australia’s sheep industry that led to the construction of the Dog Fence, with notes on other wildlife abundance 2. Fe…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The Delta #92 (13 Oct 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. Pract Guidance for Climate-Driven Hydrol Projections
2. State of Global Water Resources 2024
3. Truck spills: A threat to aquatic life
4. NbSs for flood mitigation in Aust

and more
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The Delta #92 (13 October 2025) - The Delta
In the wash up of this issue of The Delta 1.* Empowering Water Decisions: Practical Guidance for Climate-Driven Hydrological Projections 2. State of Global Water Resources 2024 3.* Truck spills: A thr...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Empowering Water Decisions: Practical Guidance for Climate-Driven Hydrological Projections

A guide that helps in making hydrological projections more useful to multiple stakeholders.

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Empowering Water Decisions: Practical Guidance for Climate-Driven Hydrological Projections
With climate change, water resources are under growing pressure and the need for quality and accessible modelling insights into water future conditions (or hydrological projections) has never been gre...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Dbytes #690 (8 Oct 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Mapping Renewables for Nature
2. The Planetary Health Check 2025
3. Aboriginal ponds, implications for wetland stewardship
4. Water scarcity in the Anthropocene

And more
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Dbytes #690 (8 October 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Mapping Renewables for Nature: A roadmap for our energy future 2. The Planetary Health Check 2025: Our planet’s vital signs are flashing red 3. Aboriginal ponds – an arch…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Dbytes #689 (1 Oct 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. The fate of modern civilisation
2. Wild bird numbers freefall in the UK
3. Truck spills: A threat to aquatic life
4. Designing research for ecosystem restoration

And more
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October 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Truck spills: A threat to aquatic life

Truck spills are an important threat to aquatic ecosystems in countries all around the world, yet it’s a problem that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves.

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Truck spills: A threat to aquatic life
Truck spills are an important threat to aquatic ecosystems in countries all around the world, yet it’s a problem that often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Here, Valter Azevedo-Santos and P...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Delta #91 (25 Sep 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. Weaponizing Rivers? The Indus Water Treaty Verdict
2. Accounting for water-related ecosystem services
3. Floods in the Podgorica-Skadar Basin, Montenegro
4. Global water scarcity in the Anthropocene

and more
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September 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Reposted by David Salt
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
The most nature depleted country in the world continues to wage a savage war against nature in pursuit of the God of more economic growth no matte what the cost
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Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
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September 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Dbytes #688 (24 Sep 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Implementing Aust's Strategy for Nature
2. Fire & threatened species on Aust islands
3. Air is humming with insects but we’re blind to what’s happening to them
4. Climate risks report paints grim picture

& more
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Dbytes #688 (24 September 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Public Consultation Now Open: Implementing Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2024-2030 2. Islands on fire: Fire and threatened species patterns across Australia&#8217…
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September 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Floods in the Podgorica-Skadar Basin, Montenegro

Climate change is making the future increasingly uncertain for the people living in this the Podgorica-Skadar Basin in Montenegro.

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Floods in the Podgorica-Skadar Basin, Montenegro
Demir Mujević believes the topic of floods is important and appealing to geographers and hydrographers because it allows for the study of the relationship between terrain and hydrological processes, l...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Dbytes #687 (17 Sep 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Ridge-to-reef marine policy & natural capital accounting
2. Measuring our reliance on nature
3. Sacred Groves protecting Nature
4. Koalas on Australian Islands

And more
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Dbytes #687 (17 September 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Opportunities and barriers to ridge-to-reef marine policy: A review and the role of natural capital accounting 2. We’re still not measuring our reliance on nature as we r…
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September 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Weaponizing Rivers? The Indus Water Treaty Verdict and the Limits of Power

Indias’ threats to exit the Indus Waters Treaty has created enormous uncertainty around the use of the Indus River Basin, a region that supports more than 300 million people.

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Weaponizing Rivers? The Indus Water Treaty Verdict and the Limits of Power
Indias’ threats to exit the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has created enormous uncertainty around the ongoing use and management of the waters of the Indus River Basin, a region that supports more than 30...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
We’re still not measuring our reliance on nature as we rush to boost productivity

The government’s goals were to make the economy more productive and resilient and the budget more sustainable. The health of our natural capital underpins all of these.

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We’re still not measuring our reliance on nature as we rush to boost productivity - Sustainability Bites
Human economies are made possible through natural capital – stocks of land, fresh water, oceans, biodiversity and soils, among others. Farming isn’t possible without soil or water. Manufacturing isn’t...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Dbytes #686 (10 Sep 2025)
News in environmental decision making

1. Wetland conservation in the MDB
2. Merchants of doubt are back
3. Great Southern Reef monitoring program needed
4. Strategic management of noisy miners

And more
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Dbytes #686 (10 September 2025)
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Enhancing river flows v. environmental engineering as contrasting approaches to wetland conservation in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia 2. The merchants of doubt are …
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September 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The Delta #90 (9 Sep 2025)
GWF news from the wide world of water

1. The increasing-block water pricing policy in China
2. The State of American Water Infrastructure
3. Can Trust Flow Again in South Asia’s Shared Rivers?
4. Kenya hit by severe drought

and more
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The Delta #90 (9 September 2025) - The Delta
In the wash up of this issue of The Delta 1.* Household misperceptions on water price threaten the effectiveness of the increasing-block water pricing policy in China 2.* The Current State of American...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Household misperceptions on water price threaten the effectiveness of the increasing-block water pricing policy in China

In an effort to reduce domestic water consumption, consumers pay more for water when consumption exceeds certain thresholds

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Household misperceptions on water price threaten the effectiveness of the increasing-block water pricing policy in China
China is facing a growing water shortage challenge. In an effort to reduce domestic water consumption, China has introduced an increasing-block water pricing policy in which consumers pay more for wat...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM