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May 3, 2020

Aren’t we in a drought? The Australian black coal industry uses enough water for over 5 million people

Ian Overton, University of Adelaide

It’s more freshwater than what the population of the Greater Sydney region uses, but finding this out wasn’t easy.

Data about farms’ financial situation as well as the weather could help identify those most vulnerable to drought. Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

April 22, 2016

Neville Crossman, CSIRO; Ian Overton, CSIRO; Jamie Hannaford, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Kerstin Stahl, University of Freiburg; Kevin Collins, The Open University; Mark Svoboda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Mike Acreman, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and Nicole Wall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Forecasting drought should be about more than weather – to help those likely to be hit hardest, we need financial and even health data too.