https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/australia/water-drought-climate.html

Euchareena, Australia — Fleur Magick Dennis has stopped showering
every day, allowed her vegetable patch to die and told her four sons to let the
dishes pile up. Sometimes, all her family has is bottled water, and they have to
preserve every drop.

A year and a half ago, the reservoir in their town, Euchareena, went dry,
leaving the family and some other residents without running water.

“I didn’t think I’d be in this position, trying to fight for water for basic
human needs in Australia,” Ms. Magick Dennis said.

As a crippling drought and mismanagement have left more than a dozen Australian
towns and villages without a reliable source of water, the country is beginning
to confront a question that strikes at its very identity: Is life in Australia’s
vast interior compatible with the age of climate change?

“People think about climate change as this very faraway prospect, but in fact,
it’s here now,” said Joelle Gergis, a senior lecturer in climate science at the
Australian National University in Canberra and an author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.