Australian-first research by Monash University discredits the theory that rivers and underground water supplies eventually replenish following droughts or floods. Following the Australian Millennium Drought, one-third of Victoria’s water catchments still had not recovered from drought nearly eight years later.
For those water catchments not recovered, roughly 80 per cent showed no evidence of recovering anytime soon.
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Source: Phys.org