There's a Drought Folks

The big dry
June 5, 2005
Reporter: Charles Wooley Producer: Nick Greenaway
Charles Wooley in outback Australia	Drought, we once thought, was a farmer's problem, stalking the land out there beyond our horizons. But this time it's come to town. It's sucked the reservoirs of many of our major cities to record low levels. It's confounded our farmers and even raised questions about whether, in some places, we should abandon agriculture. It's made us think again in both town and country about how we live in Australia. And as you'll see in this story, it's a problem so serious it's even reopened the nuclear debate. Watch video To read a transcript of this story, click here.