Around 90% of New South Wales is now drought declared. Farmers are watching helpless as creeks stop running and their dams dry out. Stock prices are falling, crops are failing, feed is becoming impossible to buy even if the farmers had the money available to spend.
For some it’s becoming a nightmare. Farm after farm is cutting back on their livestock selling it off for a third of its value of a year ago and there’s no end in sight.
For us in the city, with water on tap (literally) things are bad, but we’re obviously coping with the occasional shower keeping things greenish most of the time. Out in the bush it’s anotehr matter entirely.
Even in places like Gundegai and Goulbern is only an hour or so out of Sydney things are becoming impossible to cope with and these are all further south where yout reasonbly expect more rain to fall. It has affected town in all sorts of little ways… fountains are turned off, swimming pools are empty, municipal gardens are dry and lifeless… it’s bad.
Farmers need more than money… they need water. We *need* to get desalination plants up and running now *before* we end up having to import food we should be growing ourselves.
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