Toll Of Australian Drought - 46 Cubic Kilometers Of Freshwater, Mapping Project Shows - AAP

[hatrack]

Satellite mapping of Australia's fresh water supplies shows the continent has lost the equivalent of 92 Sydney Harbours in fresh water in the past three years.

The global mapping project, using US and German satellites, found Australia suffered a net loss of 46 cubic kilometres of fresh water since 2002, Fairfax newspapers report.

The lost water could have quenched Sydney's thirst for more than 80 years, based on consumption patterns.

While the data confirmed Australia was in drought, it would take another five years of mapping to determine whether the loss was the result of a long-term climate change trend.

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http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=344306

[BR_Parkway]

1. 92 Sydney Harbors! They should have made that the headline - it's

a visual people can relate to. When are the denialists going to wake up and look at what is happening all around us?

And Hatrack, thank you for posting all these articles that you do, I see your name up and down the list, sadly with very few replies in many of them (guilty of that myself)

[phantom power]

2. 80 years of water supply evaporated in 3 years?