The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday that a major NSW River, the Lachlan has run dry, potentially leaving those downstream dependent on water being trucked in.
The drought gripping the valley has caused the water level in Wyangala dam drop to 6 per cent
As Jeremy Buckingham, the Greens’ Councillor in Orange, points out on his blog, this is the first time in living memory that the Lachlan River has run dry, and this time we can’t blame irrigators, as there is little irrigation on the Lachlan. Buckingham suggests that it is more than a prolonged drought, but rather climate change starting to manifest itself.
Of course, Sydney’s $2 billion desalination plant will soon be operating, so we can remain blissfully ignorant of the crisis in climate country NSW and keep building new power stations and motorways.
