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• 2006 what did Australia suffer from

  a Millennium drought
• 2006 Millennium drought what happened to reservoirs

  40% below capacity
• Wetlands house how much of the worlds biodiversity

  40%
• Australian droughts impact on Wetlands

  acidification

  • dry out and release co2
• Enso impacts in Brazil 


  El Nino phase has led to flooding

  • 57 died
  • 70,00 displaced
• climate change can decrease precipitation 


  10-30 N and S of the EQ
• large desalination plant costs

  $50-80 million
• drip irrigation can work in

  small and large scales
• India is using 


  drip irrigation systems and found them to have 80-90% water efficiency
• Almeria in spain uses

  hydroponics