Australia is in the grips of the worst drought in living memory. A walk down to the Murrumbidgee River found the lowest levels of flow that I can remember. I tweeted the short video below yesterday and was surprised at the reaction to it. Currently the tweet has had 50k impressions and 16k views of the video.
There is a lot of talk about poor water management practices by government at all levels.. anyway I think the video speaks for itself..
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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History lost through lack of funding
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