Knowledge Centre — Water Conservation

Australia is experiencing one of its most severe droughts on record, resulting in desperate water shortages across large parts of New South Wales and southern Queensland. The latest report by the Bureau of Meteorology issued on 5 September 2019 focused on these key points: Rainfall in the past 17 months has been below average over much of New South Wales, southern Queensland, northern and eastern Victoria, South Australia and northern Tasmania Rainfall deficiencies generally persist with little change in affected areas Long-term rainfall deficiencies, record-low for some periods, continue to severely limit water resources across the Murray-Darling Basin Root-zone soil...