Could This Drought Bring Californians Together?
Australia’s Last Dry Spell Lasted Over a Decade. It Required Us All to Share the Burden.
As an Australian, I have been taught from birth the value of water. In school, history lessons always included details of early explorers who died of thirst, such as Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills’ disastrous expedition between the Gulf of Carpentaria and Melbourne in 1861. Today, the threat remains; it’s not uncommon for people to die from lack of water when their cars break down in the Outback.
And while we’re used to water scarcity in Australia, we do have particular periods of national drought, the latest stretching from …
