Dr Paul Humphries of Charles Sturt University’s Institute for Land, Water and Society has written an interesting article called “The drought we had to have?” which has been published by Science Alert. Dr Humphries’s comments are particularly tagretted towards Austrlia’s Murray River Basin, however the principles apply the world over.

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Modification of river systems for irrigation and urban and industrial use are detrimental to river health we all know that. However this article proposes that climate change, drought and the difficulties the Murray is now facing might be impetus to re-evaluate catchment management.

Read the full article.

The drought we had to have? (ScienceAlert)

Tags: MurrayRiver, ecology, CatchmentCare, WatershedManagement, ClimateChange