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🏠 SEQ housing crisis: Hidden impacts on our waterways As Southeast Queensland plans to build nearly 900,000 new homes by 2046, Associate Professor Andrew Brooks is sounding the alarm on a critical, yet often overlooked, issue: the environmental toll on the Brisbane River catchment. 🌊🏞️ A recent audit by Healthy Land & Water revealed a troubling fact—only 15% of construction sites are meeting erosion sediment control standards. The consequences? Increased sediment from these sites is threatening #Brisbane's drinking water supply, especially during dry years and catastrophic floods. 🌧️💧 Since 2011, Brisbane’s largest water treatment plants have shut down four times due to poor water quality, and in 2022, the desalination plant had to be reactivated to cope with sediment overload. This is a pressing issue that affects us all. Read more in the ABC story. #HousingCrisis #WaterQuality #EnvironmentalImpact #SustainableConstruction #BrisbaneRiver #Brisbane #Queensland #GriffithUniversity #CitiesResearchInstitute

Along the Queensland coast, where the river meets the ocean, a once sandy sea floor is now covered in mud

Along the Queensland coast, where the river meets the ocean, a once sandy sea floor is now covered in mud

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