i thought australia didnt have water bc its so dry
You're right it doesn't, we import good water genetics from Finland and breed them on water farms to provide water for the Australian population
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We literally have rainforests. We have a region called New England because it goes crimson in autumn. The Hunter Valley gets flooded every La Nina and there's huge controversy in Sydney because developers keep building on flood plains. Melbourne is famous for having incredibly touchy weather that changes every five minutes. We have a trail in Tasmania that people won't hike in winter because they WILL die from hypothermia if they aren't completely prepared and very lucky. We have a cyclone season. We once had a cyclone go so far inland it went to Alice Springs - for Americans, imagine a hurricane that starts in Florida and ends up in Iowa.
We're a desert country, yes, but here, in Sydney, we get more rainfall every year than London. During the 2022 La Nina we got more rainfall in a week than London does in a year. A desert country means we get wet seasons. In some parts of Australia that's yearly, in other parts it's a Game of Thrones-esque multi year cycle of wet and dry and we never know in advance how long which part will last, only year by year.
You want to know what the biggest desert in the world is? It's Antarctica. The Sahara isn't the standard for what deserts look like, it's an exception, not the norm. Most deserts are as different from each other as forests, not featureless sand.
We are home to the oldest cultures in the world, who've been here from 40,000 years ago at minimum to up to twice that. They are so old they were here before Australia was mostly desert. They wouldn't have survived if there was no water.
