– Western Australia’s Lake Dundas is a salt lake in a dry environment, but it once sat along a drainage channel with headwaters in Antarctica.

– A report says that the population of endangered delta smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta has increased 10-fold since last year.

– With many African countries suffering from a lack of water, ESA’s TIGER initiative has built capacity to map this precious resource.

– The U.S. government is deploying Colorado scientists to lead a $5.4 million effort to gauge the impact of shrinking Himalayan glaciers on water supplies across Asia.

– The Washington Gas Light Company has agreed to begin clean up of a polluted area along the Anacostia River in southeast Washington, DC..

– Landsat instruments have peered into the hot-water plumbing beneath some of Yellowstone’s famous monuments.

– Take a tour showing how African dams could “place tomorrow’s ecosystem sustainability at risk”.

– In perhaps the driest place on Earth, water still shapes the landscape.

– At the NSW Excellence in Surveying & Spatial Information Awards event, the Spatial Information Award has been presented to the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) for its online NorBE assessment tool.