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: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:55AM
Not yet as extensive, there's time to catch up with the prognostic for the next 3 months set on "El Nino watch" (a bit over 50% chances it will happen).
Anyway, it's the most "intensive" [abc.net.au] - 2018 autumn the lowest rain fall since 1960.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:54AM
Eight droughts since 1900
14 years of drought since 2000
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030?pfm=ms [abc.net.au]
https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-campus/australian-climate-change/australian-trends/ [climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:48AM (11 children)
Dear department,
send canned water asap. If you can can water, that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by dak664 on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:36PM
Freeze-dried can be shipped through the intertubes. Just like bitcoin!
(Score: 3, Informative) by DavePolaschek on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:38PM (9 children)
Dehydrated water [culinarylore.com] is lighter weight, thus cheaper to ship.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:59PM (8 children)
For some obscure reason, that link timeouts.
Got the original [bernardfoods.com] though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Wednesday August 08 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)
Isn't that a Steven Wright Joke [youtu.be]?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:01PM
Unless Steven Wright told the joke at 9 years of age, I think chances are it's an 1964-old Bernard Food joke adapted by Steven Wright. Or sorta "parallel evolution".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 08 2018, @05:58PM (3 children)
Beats me where my parents got one or why, but I remember seeing one of these in my hose when I was growing up. Possibly funnier than the whole dihydrogen monoxide thing.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:01PM (1 child)
*house, not hose. . . h o u s e
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @06:28PM
That's too bad, the hose seems like a perfect place to store your dehydrated H20 as it is all ready to go and be re-hydrated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:22PM
Which ... hose?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:53AM (1 child)
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.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 09 2018, @02:54AM
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:26PM (1 child)
Time we all started to eat more roo meat. There's a plague of kangaroos in the fridge affected areas. Kangaroos also require a *lot* less water and chemicals to farm than cows.
Time to start adapting to droughts. Maybe the cotton and rice farmers will go this way too.
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:10AM
Fridge = drought
Here in wintery Melbourne, it is a bit fridge affected.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:24AM
....they were complaining about the flooding.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030?pfm=ms [abc.net.au]
This is normal Australia -- if you don't like the climate, wait five years, it'll flip-flop.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.