Hi to all,
Firstly, I would like to thank all of you for reading my blog. I have noticed that several of you are living in Japan - The land of the Rising Sun - and I hope you are enjoying what you read. Please do not hesitate to comment, as I love you to participate.
Australia is at the moment experiencing its 6th drought year, and our farmers are having a hard time.The land is as dry as can be and water restrictions are everywhere. However, much of the difficulties come, from what I can see, from bad water management that goes back to the time white man first landed in this vast land.
White man has brought with it animals and agriculture foreign to this land, cleared the land of its trees, and instituted monoculture agriculture of annual crops.These inturn, produced vast areas of extended dessert, like the dustbowls of the USA, and in some salt levels rose to render the land unusable.
With much of the crops going to other lands, Australia has/is in fact, exporting much of its water and, there has been little attention given to harnessing water resources.In the area we living in, for example, there are quite often heavy dark clouds hanging overhead, but there is no cloud seeding; and in years where floods are abound, with farm animal up to their necks in water, there are no dams to collect that abundance.
Drought - Australia
In marginal land no rain in site the ground is cracked like shattered glass Salt has risen no plant in sight cattle and sheep just wander about They wonder perhaps a blade of grass - will stand up right or semblance of wet will denote a site We uprooted the trees lay waste the terrain we destroyed all life in this our land
Renate
Artist, poet & the Author of
From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country http://www.promisedland-renate.com/
promised land - renate
