Border Mail letters: Border Mail readers have their say on the issues of the day

Updated March 19 2017 - 10:23pm, first published 6:00pm
Rethink: Australians need to give serious thought to the far more efficient use of water, which is growing in scarcity, a reader says.
Rethink: Australians need to give serious thought to the far more efficient use of water, which is growing in scarcity, a reader says.

Water reality ignored

No more rain falls in Australian in 2017 than fell in the 1780s when white settlement began. At that time about 300,000 Aborigines lived across our continent. Now 25 million people compete for the same amount of water and politicians talk of millions more and huge new cities to house them and boost the economy.

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