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FEATURE : Despair looms as drought hits Australia’s Mississippi

EIGHT-YEAR ‘BIG DRY’ Sections of rivers have become little more than stagnant pools, while algal bloom has crept along an 800km stretch of the Murray waterway

AFP , COBRAM, AUSTRALIA

“With another El Nino event predicted to bring dry conditions, the overall outlook for the 2009-to-2010 water year unfortunately remains very poor,” authority chief executive Rob Freeman said.

For Bisogni, still working his farm long past his planned retirement and forced to borrow A$2.3 million (US$1.9 million) last year to keep it operating, it amounts to a grinding struggle.

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