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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201004/s2876329.htm
Professor checks out the world’s droughts
From Syria, where one million people have lost their livelihood because of drought, to Yemen, a country fast running out of water, Professor Robert Wilby is a climate change globe trotter.
The scientist from Loughborough University, in the UK, travels to countries which are at breaking point.
He says drought’s an experience not just familiar to Australia, but also to China, the eastern Mediterranean, Syria and India.
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