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May 28, 2015

California looks Down Under for drought tips

  • Australians have fundamentally changed how they handle this precious resource but it may be tough medicine for others to swallow.
    • By KRISTEN GELINEAU and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
    Associated Press

    SYDNEY — California has turned to the world's driest inhabited continent for solutions to its longest and sharpest drought on record.

    Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed “a sunburnt country,” suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012. Now Californians are facing their own “Big Dry,” and looking Down Under to see how they coped.


     
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