Much of Australia has been in a more than decade old drought, and climate scientists fear that it is just a harbinger of a more profound drying coming as a result of human induced climate change.
This story from PRI's The World, describes some of the impact this drought has had on the Murray-Darling river basin. A very similar history and much of the same conflicts over water use have played out in the western U.S. A number of great books describe this history including
Cadillac Desert by
Marc Reisner. Also, NPR had a nice
multi-part series on water use in the west.
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