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Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-CAN-be-done? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Reuters reports:

Record-low rainfall in some regions and successive seasons of above-average temperatures have blighted vast tracts of Australia's grazing and crop land.

[...] as grain silos in the south are emptied, desperate owners are being forced to slaughter animals, even if it means it will take years for herds to recover.

[...] The ground in drought-hit regions has dried out to such a depth that it is even killing large trees.

[...] The current dry period is not as extensive as the Millennium drought of 1997-2005, which devastated nearly 50 percent of the country's agricultural land and was associated with two El Niño systems, which bring hot, dry weather to Australia.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:53AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:53AM (#719182) Homepage
    I'm sure the joke predates that, as everone has invented it themselves.
    But what's the "humidifying saunas" line about - that's what real water does when thrown on the stones. Dehydrated water would dehumidify it, surely. They fucked up their own joke.
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 09 2018, @02:54AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 09 2018, @02:54AM (#719205) Journal

    But what's the "humidifying saunas" line about - that's what real water does when thrown on the stones.

    I suppose they may be thinking at dry heat saunas, otherwise the result will be just as effective as for the "Dampening Dry Humor" use.
    Unless, for those cases, the product is to be used in diluted/reconstituted form.

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