A prolonged drought in Australia's Murray-Darling river system is worsening and the country's main food bowl may forever be changed by accelerating climate warming.
Government officials said on Thursday that despite good autumn rains, June inflows into the river basin were the lowest in more than a century. Dry weather is plunging more rural areas into drought. The Murray-Darling, an area the size of Germany and France, produces 41 percent of Australia's agriculture and provides $20 billion worth of farm exports to Asia and the Middle East. Some 70 percent of all irrigated agriculture comes from this vast region.
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