Human Health Endangered by Australian Drought
Due to climate change; one of the now dried up lakes in Australia is gradually turning into Sulphuric Acid.
The Age is reporting that there are fears people living in towns around the lakes may suffer from acid dust, blowing off the bare lakes as rising acidity threatens to wipe out ecology in the lakes. The lake-bed soils turn into sulphuric acid when exposed to the air, and record low flows down the Murray are exposing the beds.
