Plunge
11-07-2006, 10:27 PM
Wow (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/07/061107055949.t193etet.html)! I had no idea it was so bad in Australia!
The world's driest inhabited continent was in the grip of the worst drought in 1,000 years, a river management expert told Australia's political leaders.
Prime Minister John Howard and three state premiers were presented with the assessment by an expert on the country's most significant river system at a crisis drought summit in Canberra.
The drought has already been described variously as the worst in living memory, the worst in a century and the worst since white settlement more than two centuries ago, and Howard said he could not verify the latest claim.
"You say worst drought in a thousand years, I don't think anybody really knows that," he said, adding that he was not a scientist. "It's a very bad drought."
Good luck down there!
The world's driest inhabited continent was in the grip of the worst drought in 1,000 years, a river management expert told Australia's political leaders.
Prime Minister John Howard and three state premiers were presented with the assessment by an expert on the country's most significant river system at a crisis drought summit in Canberra.
The drought has already been described variously as the worst in living memory, the worst in a century and the worst since white settlement more than two centuries ago, and Howard said he could not verify the latest claim.
"You say worst drought in a thousand years, I don't think anybody really knows that," he said, adding that he was not a scientist. "It's a very bad drought."
Good luck down there!