Drought hits ‘uncharted’ level

THE devastating drought across Australia’s east has reached uncharted territory, with the weather bureau officially declaring it the Murray-Darling Basin’s worst dry spell. Bureau of Meteorologist climatologist David Jones said the drought across the basin was now worse than previously recorded. “Our records only go back 120 years … in terms of the rainfall records […]

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