THE BIG DRY
- From: Vol 10, Issue 4 (April 2009)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Unspecified
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- Related Companies: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Murray-Darling Basin Authority
* Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin has seen inf lows shrink to a 117-year low, despite the reversal of the La Niña effect which was identified as the cause of its long drought.
The staggering collapse of water availability in the country has one upside. By 2015, the market for Australian water-related goods and services could be worth twice as much as the country’s wine and dairy export industries, according to waterAUSTRALIA (see story p28). The organisation has just been set up to promote Australia’s water industry abroad. We wish Chairman ...
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