Basin drought officially worst on record

By Matt Coughlan
Updated July 19 2019 - 3:38am, first published 3:30am
The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin the worst on record.
The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin the worst on record.

The devastating drought across Australia's east has reached uncharted territory, with the weather bureau officially declaring it the Murray Darling Basin's worst dry spell.

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