Water Crisis Deepens on South Australia’s Limestone Coast
Nearly 200 years of land alteration and a drying climate ravage South Australia’s Limestone Coast, depleting groundwater reserves and collapsing globally significant ecosystems.
The situation has been referred to as a ‘green drought’, where the use of groundwater by irrigators can mask the impacts of a dry spell above the surface. It is through the regions’ sinkholes, often described as ‘windows to the aquifer’, that the true extent of the crisis is revealed.
