Terrible news from the ABC -- After the massive windstorms that swept through southern parts of Australia, reports suggest that tonnes of priceless topsoils have been stripped off our farmland.
Putting environmental flows back into the Murray is vital -- so too is providing the farmers with enough water for their paddocks -- bind the soil & enable growth of ground cover. Drought does more than dry up rivers -- it puts our soils up into the Extreme Erosion risk category.
Check out story here ABC News
Thursday 3 April 2008
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this is a problem all over the planet now.
Edward is correct -- Some Middle East countries that did not have any sustainable water reserves have successfully utilised desalination to survive. In our case, we can utilise the water to not only grow and sustain our agriculture, but stabilise our topsoils and assist our drought-affected rural communities.
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