CANBERRA: Australia faces an “unprecedentedly dangerous” drought and unless rain falls within weeks irrigation will be cut to the nation's food bowl, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday.
A contingency plan prepared for the government said unless water catchments across the country received heavy and widespread rainfall before mid-May, allocations for irrigators and environmental river flows would be stopped.
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