National Geographic Feature: Australia's Dry Run

This month's edition of National Geographic Magazine features an article on the Murray Darling Basin, entitled Australia's Dry Run. It poses the question: what will happen when the climate starts to change and the rivers dry up and a whole way of life comes to an end?

From the article:

The once quintessential Australian swagger has now come to resemble, in the wake of the water crisis, what Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross famously termed the "stages of grief": denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In what is shaping up to be a cautionary tale for other developed nations, the world's 15th biggest economy is learning hard lessons about the limits of natural resources in an era of climate change. The upside is that Australians may be the ones to teach those lessons to the rest of the industrialized world.

Read the full article here. Non-profit water news organisation Circle of Blue has also published a feature on Australia's drought crisis, entitled The Biggest Dry, which features a range of articles, video interviews, a photo gallery, links and an interactive map. The videos featured in the special edition include:

• The Biggest Dry, Stories of Australia’s Waning Rivers & Worried Towns
• Aboriginal Elder Beryl Carmichael Sings the River’s Lament
• Caring for Basins Beyond Reform with Australian Scientist John Williams
• Julian Cribb Predicts “Diabolical” Future for World’s River Basins
• Greg Ogle Illustrates Murray’s Failing Circulatory System

See the whole of the special report here.