Reuters – Reduced to a string of stagnant mustard-coloured pools, fouled in places with pesticide run-off and stinking with the rotting carcasses of cattle and fish, the Darling River is running dry. The parched earth of Australia’s longest waterway, if tributaries are included, is in the grip of the continent’s most severe drought in a

Thirst turns to anger Down Under as mighty river runs dry
The Darling River irrigates some of Australia’s richest grazing lands and many crops