'Climate variability': Less rain, rising temperatures to hit NSW's water security

By Peter Hannam
Updated December 2 2014 - 10:23am, first published November 26 2014 - 1:32pm
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
The biggest impacts on water security may be felt in the Murray-Darling Basin, where the climate "is likely to become drier and more variable in the future". Photo: Nick Moir
Last two years have been dry across most of eastern Australia. Photo: BoM
Last two years have been dry across most of eastern Australia. Photo: BoM

NSW has to prepare for worsening water security as climate change triggers winter rainfall reductions of as much as 50 per cent by 2050 and rising temperatures increase evaporation, the government said in its State Infrastructure Strategy plan.

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