‘Dire’: Shock drought reality facing Aussies

News.com.au - 16/02
Jamie Solly has been carting water around South Australia’s fertile Fleurieu Peninsula for almost two decades and he says the drought conditions that have blanketed the state in the past 12 months are the worst he has ever seen.

Jamie Solly has been carting water around South Australia’s fertile Fleurieu Peninsula for almost two decades and he says the drought conditions that have blanketed the state in the past 12 months are the worst he has ever seen.

“I had a young girl from Meadow ring me up with a young baby, and she had no water,” he told NewsWire this week.

“She had been told two weeks before she could get water.

“It’s just one (story) of many.

“I had a couple out the back of Finniss, towards Clayton, they had run out of water, I couldn’t get there for three or four days because I was so heavily backlogged and they had to take their newborn to their parents’ place, just so they could wash.”

The harsh conditions are widespread across South Australia, from the Fleurieu in the south and the Adelaide Hills region in Greater Adelaide to the Eyre Peninsula across the Spencer Gulf.

A stark map charting rainfall decile ranges from the Bureau of Meteorology shows the entire...
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