Excessive water extractions, not climate change, are most to blame for the Darling River drying

By Quentin Grafton, Australian Laureate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Gilad Bino, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
John Williams, Adjunct Professor
Long Chu, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney

Climate change shouldn’t be used as a “get out-of jail free” card to excuse bad decision-making and poor planning decisions.

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