Threat to food crops as Australia prepares to turn off farmers’ water

The Times (UK) ^ | 4/20/07 | Bernard Lagan

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Australians have been told to pray for rain or face a ban on irrigation in the main food-growing region so that there is enough water to drink.

The Prime Minister’s warning yesterday heralded a dramatic increase in food prices and the prospect of tens of thousands of farmers having to watch their crops fail.

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Ping to a familiar situation.

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"John Howard said that an expert panel had advised the Government that the worst drought in the nation’s history left it no choice but to turn off irrigation systems in the agricultural heartland of the Murray-Darling basin in the east."
'Public' water alert...





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