Sydney is vying with Mexico City and Beijing to be the first
capital in the world to run out of water," she said.
"Where Melbourne may hit the wall in 15 years''
---read below for details.
Level 3 mandatory water restrictions now apply across
Sydney, Illawarra and the Blue Mountains.
2.Drought tightens grip on Australia,Friday, 13 October
2006
http://www.abc.net.au/water/stories/s1764087.htm
Dr Craik has made the frightening prediction that unless it
rains, many communities' water storages will completely dry
up.
"If we don't get a decent break it's very possible that our
storages could be empty by the end of April, May next year," she
said.
Liberal Senator and farmer Bill Heffernan says even drinking water
is running out.
"We are now faced with the prospect of some communities actually
having their domestic water at risk," he said......
"One farmer in rural Australia takes his own life every four days
now," he said.......
3.Has Aussie done enough to prepare this one-in-100-year
drought?
4.
"We're looking at a situation where Sydney is vying with
Mexico City and Beijing to be the first capital in the world to run
out of water," she said.
"Where Melbourne may hit the wall in 15 years, where you have
polluted and depleted your river systems and your aquifers at a
truly unprecedented rate.
"You're in water crisis but not water crisis that's recognised in
anything other than just kind of a language of
drought."
http://www.abc.net.au/water/stories/s1759528.htm
Canadian conservationist Maude Barlow says Melbourne and Sydney
will run out of drinking water unless governments take urgent
action.
5.While it is damn impolite to say this in Aussie,i think the
expert
really put her head in chopping board.But She is really fren of
Aussie
,telling the unpleasant truths.
