Green Options » darling http://greenoptions.com/tag/darling Posts tagged 'darling' Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Drought in Aussie Food Bowl Continues to Worsen http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/02/drought-in-aussie-food-bowl-continues-to-worsen/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/02/drought-in-aussie-food-bowl-continues-to-worsen/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:13:58 +0000 Joshua S Hill http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/02/drought-in-aussie-food-bowl-continues-to-worsen/ 381685749_52e5a445e1 The Murray-Darling Basin exists as Australia’s largest agricultural area, and drains a total of one-seventh of the Australian land mass. The Basin harbors two of Australia’s largest and most important rivers, the Murray River and the Darling River. And the Murray-Darling is also Australia’s foodbowl, providing food for Australia, as well as exports to Asia and the Middle East.

But with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low, the Murray-Darling Basin is dying.

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