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Australia’s irrigation volume falls 21%, says ABS

ABOVE-average temperatures and drought across much of Australia resulted in a 21 per cent overall fall in the volume of water used for irrigation in 2019-20, according to data released this month by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Fruit and nuts (excluding grapevines) were the only crops in the country to increase their irrigated […]

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