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• Water
  by RedBubble

  Today’s home page is all about water – that precious resource, essential to life, and beautiful to the eye. Whether in the form of …

  Today’s home page is all about water – that precious resource, essential to life, and beautiful to the eye. Whether in the form of waves near a rugged coastline, droplets on a leaf, or cascading over a waterfall, water has always inspired artists and photographers. To celebrate the ending of El Nino conditions and a forecast end to the recent Australian drought, here’s a home page full of magnificent water images…

• Three as One
  by Stephen Mitchell

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• DROUGHT! A difficult year for all.......
  by hillsrain

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outsid…

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outside, pleading to mother nature to make it rain. Its a song in vain I fear. Random downbursts, sinking vortexes of wind and pressure skulk through the atmosphere. / Dead calm, then a strong gust of wind drops straight down from the sky above. The house creaks, the gate rattles and dinner plate drops of rain numbered around 25, but no more, crash onto the tin roof like pebbles from the sky. The weather station records nothing as dramatic as the complaints from the house would suggest. Then as fast as it comes its gone. Odd?? A new weather system is on the approach. It looked good for a while too. Rain was on the forecast!! Bummer, its weakening. / Bummer, it looks like the promised rains might have been a clutch at straws. Am worried by the downturn. I’ll be out of dam water by December at the current rate of season collapse. The cows will be thirsty. This is all too common a story across Australia. What will happen will happen, but the tough walk is still to come. Better get out the crutches I suppose. / Looks to the heavens and shouts – “You can break my legs ya bastard, but ya won’t stop me!!” This time next year will make the present look like a walk in the park. As this season rapidly collapses into weather anarchy yet again my thoughts cannot help but drift to the pessimistic view. I will see it through – just, but my income is supplemented from outside sources. I am lucky. My thoughts and prayers drift to those families whose soul resides IN the land and will have their spirit cut asunder this year. / Am thinking of you lot – you are not alone.

• I Wonder
  by mazzfarrell

  Here I sit on the river bank wondering about the River Murray and what will be; when and if the river dries up; and it may well do. The l…

  Here I sit on the river bank wondering about the River Murray and what will be; when and if the river dries up; and it may well do. The lives of so many people and families will be hit hard as the mighty River Murray no longer flows as it did once flow. How many families will have to leave their homes, how many will stay and try to survive this drought.? There is a drought and will we be able to survive it as many before have, this time around? Some of the older generation have seen this before and would; but the younger ones have no idea what will happen and unfortunately the Mighty River Murray may never again be the strong and winding river it once was. Only time and rain will tell.

• Rain where are you?
  by retepk

  The 27th. / Please world if anybody can spare some water down here in sunny, dry Melbourne (Australia), it would be most welcome. / If we h…

  The 27th. / Please world if anybody can spare some water down here in sunny, dry Melbourne (Australia), it would be most welcome. / If we have a hot summer, which is, sadly, not far off, as it is almost the end of September, we could be in trouble with the water supplies. / I know we have had some rain during the last few months but not enough. / We should be on more severe water restrictions. / Six months or more of above average monthly rain and we should be right. / So we wait for the rain. / We wait for rain . . .

• Cracked Earth- Australia in Drought
  by rosepepper

  CRACKED EARTH / This entry is a backup to the image Cracked Earth and follows a question posted on my art page. It adds words and weight …

  CRACKED EARTH / This entry is a backup to the image Cracked Earth and follows a question posted on my art page. It adds words and weight to Cracked Earth. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth and from 2003 has recorded the worst drought in a 1000 years in many parts of the country. 30% of this huge continent is desert, but it is the El Nino effect in 2006-7 and global climate change that has contributed to the water crisis around the coastal perimeters and more fertile zones. / Capital cities face a water storage crisis, agricultural production has dropped, stock feed is scarce and everyone faces water restrictions and water bills. Serious environmental damage, vegetation loss, soil erosion, salinity problems, toxic algae outbreaks in waterways and lakes and more bushfires are the result of the long 5 year drought. Since 2003 state governments have been attempting to drought proof their states. / Only recently and with a newly elected Labor government has Australia joined Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Agreements in an attempt to address our carbon footprint and global climate change. / Water is our most precious resource. Our colonial past and the clearing of natural bush and vegetation for farming and other purposes has wreaked a heavy price on a very fragile ecosystem.