In this Climate Series conversation, one of the nation's leading water experts Mike Young talks to Age environment reporter Adam Morton about water in a time of climate change. They discuss the extent of the nation's water shortages and the outlook for the future, strategies for coping with the likely ongoing deficit, the troubles of the Murray-Darling system and much more.
Professor Mike Young is a member of the Wentworth Group, Executive Director of University of Adelaide's Environment Institute, Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
Featuring the nation's leading minds in their fields, the Climate Series conversations are a survey of the latest thinking about climate change: its impacts, the outlook and the steps required to address it.
Melbourne, February 2009
(Part 1 of 2)