We're approaching crunch time for water availability in southeast Australia. John Howard indicated last week that unless the nation gets rain in biblical proportions in the next 6 to 8 weeks, the irrigators in the Murray Darling Basin would have to go without water next season (to which the irrigators responded - "duh, John"). In addition, John's gone as far as to suggest the Murray River may be effectively turned off, as environmental flows are cut-off to maintain water in the dams and weirs along the waterway.
Melbourne got a good soaking yesterday, last night, and this morning. Just 39 more days and nights to go. . .
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