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The Age: El Nino fear as dams fall to new low

VICTORIA'S stressed water storages and rivers -- both at record lows -- could face a nightmarish year of severe drought as the odds firm of an El Nino weather event hitting Australia within months.

Such an event could force Melbourne onto stage 4 restrictions, with the Yarra River unable to bear further reductions in flows to support storages upstream.

by Sassafras on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 11:07:19 AM EST
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