A city-by-city guide to how water supplies fared in Australia's summer of extremes
- Written by Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
Australia has just experienced a summer of environmental extremes. Water has played a key role. This includes prolonged drought, dry soil and bushland contributing to bushfires, and widespread shortages of water for agriculture and drinking supplies. Thankfully, rain extinguished many bushfires that had burned for weeks and months.
The late summer...