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The contractual duty arises out of requirements and duties under the water resources act 1991 and certain obligations to the community also exist under the Health and Safety at Work Act.... To this end, waste is “an inevitable by-product of our use of natural resources.... under the law of tort, Grangewood is also liable for the escape of waste from its company's premises into the neighboring community under the principles of a nuisance....
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The case study "Main Water Quality Problems from Surface water resources Perspectives" states that Earth looks like a blue ball from the moon.... Groundwater is all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone (that is, below the water table) and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil (Bellamy, 2005).... Water pollution occurs when a body of water is adversely affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to the water....
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In an attempt to terminate the proceedings of this case, the Queensland government enacted the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory act 1985.... The act declared that the annexation of the islands in the Torres Strait in 1879 transferred the ownership of the lands therein to the state of Queensland.... According to the act, the fact that the title of the island was already vested to the state, the land is now “freed from all other rights, interests, and claims whatsoever” (see Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory act 1985)....
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The paper "Offences against the Person act 1861" discusses that the inherent issues with OAGA 1861 would not so much in the wordings that construed and constructs the rudiments for legal interpretation, but also in terms of how its surviving provisions are interpreted in the current context.... Some of the controversy surrounding OAPA 1861 could be in terms of the relevance and application of Section 20 of this act, which, inter alia states, “Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon any other person, either with or without any weapon or instrument, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable […] 34 to be kept in penal servitude” (Offences against the Person act 1861 2006, P....
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Through meditation and negotiation, the community is able to get better control of the resources they own and the rights they deserve.... From the paper "Management of a Conflict - Fitchburg water Supply Mediation" it is clear that the technique of meditation and negotiation has not been very successful in American history.... In a court ruling, one party succeeds and the other party loses.... The traditional tool for settling disputes was the action of taking the opposite party to a court which was not at all profitable for an organization....
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But the water conflicts, though not visible in such enormous proportions of death, are creating an equally dangerous situation.... Any theoretical exercise in relation to valuable natural resources has to begin from the premise that there is a “wide disparity in the consumption patterns between developed and developing countries” (Young, Dooge and Rodda, 1994, p.... The main feature of this disparity has been that developed world is marked by “overconsumption” of resources, including water (Young, Dooge and Rodda, 1994, p....
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The basin agricultural production constitutes 39% of the national value hence important in contributing to the Australian economic income (Gregson 2012, pg15) The Murray-Darling Basin Authority was initially formed within the Water act 2007 to prepare a plan called the “THE BASIN PLAN” which was the foundation for managing all the water resources within the Murray-Darling Basin in a way that become long-lasting and sustainable....
The basin plan was therefore required to:
Describe all the water resources in the region, give clear identification of the area covered by the resource area....
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It occurs when energy and other wastes are released into the water, thus resulting in degradation of the water, making it unfit for other uses.... Water pollution occurs when the substances released into the water exceed the capability of the water to break them down.... The different water resources within the country such as lakes, rivers as well as the ocean are under pressure from increasing agricultural practises, urban and industrial wastes as well as hydroelectric power production....
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