what happened at Menindee when all of those fish were killed in the Darling?
Mr Oipinion,
My guess is it was lack of oxygen due to the lack of flowing water due to the milking by Cotton growers. Of course, academic scientists will prove otherwise with the help of MSM.
So far as the dying coral goes it's plain & simply pollution. I have seen quite many new coral patches developing in the northern sections over the past few years. Once the chemicals from the Coral Sea WW2 shipwrecks & the Ok tedi Gold mine outflow have dispersed, the reef will begin recovery in earnest. It will be interesting how the industry dependent MSM will report that.

Hi JF Aus,

Could you please let me know of any articles you come across that you think might be of interest to me? I'm primarily interested in what the scientific community and scholars are saying about water, particularly its connection with people and their societies.

particularly its connection with people and their societies.
Mr Opinion,
While you're waiting, I'd like to offer my utterly un-scientific, un-scholarly opinon. I have worked in the water industry for many years & have only this experience to draw on.
It goes without saying that all life on this planet needs water to exist. Then you have people who use water to make money for the simple reason that humans need water. That is the freshwater part. Saltwater harbours all the food humans can drag out of it to consume & of course make money.
I'm looking forward to read a scientific, scholarly view on water.

Dear Mr Opinion,

I'm not sure if this is the type of thing you're
after, but here goes:

http://www.livescience.com/topics/water

I'm not sure this is a case of the "mainstream media gagging and suppressing evidence".

Its more a case of that's just the way the world works these days, especially the media world.

Less plankton equals more news-worthy. Less food for whales, OMG. Another species dying out just as all hte doomsayers said. Of course this gets a run in media using the age old premise of "if it bleeds, it leads".

But stories that things are OK or there's even more food for the whales and that the doomsayers were wrong (AGAIN) just doesn't cut the mustard in terms of what the MSM thinks the public wants or needs to know.

So no conspiracy, just business as usual.

Massive heat-waves in France - top story. Unheard of snow in Poland - who cares. That doesn't fit the narrative.

I'm not sure why possibly more plankton is "evidence indicating the devastated state of the world ocean and waterways?" Seems like a good thing to me. And I to recall reading that increases in phytoplankton is likely caused by CO2 fertilisation. Indeed there were proposals to add iron to the oceans to encourage plankton growth and the consequent absorption of CO2.

Dear Foxy,

Thanks, much appreciated.

PS Would it surprise you if I told you that environmental issues are socially constructed?