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 Stories About: desertification AND water crisis AND severe weather AND Australia
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Australia today = the Southwest by 2050
Lessons the United States can learn from the drought in Australia |
Joseph Romm |
04 Mar 2008 |
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| The brutal drought has ended over large parts of Australia -- and consumers are obsessively reducing their demand for water -- and yet water 'prices are set to double in the next five to 10 years,' Water Services Association Australia executive officer Ross Young told a drought briefing in Canberra. The focus on water conservation has never been higher: Water is a dinner table topic. People are quite passionate about water and they are quite concerned about wa ... |
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| Topics: Australia, desertification, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics) |
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