Ana Manero

4 days ago | awa.asn.au | Quentin Grafton |John Williams |Long Chu |Ana Manero

While climate change is already having a very big impact on Australia, the multi-billion-dollar question for the nation’s prime food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is how much is climate change responsible for declining stream flows and how much is it due to irrigation? Discerning which of the two variables is at play (and by how much) is not an easy task. Here, an Australian National University team discuss how they took on this big challenge.