This time there are no "flooding rains"...so it's the end.
No rain, no hope.
There would've been hope, if the federal govts now and in the past had any idea.
"Pipe water from where it is to where it's needed" - no 1 radio host tells them, they never listen...now look what's happened...ruination.
"from where it is to where it's needed"
If only they could have predicted that these areas that now have need but in the past did not would have the need, while some places that in the past had need do not now.
Your radio host's advice is at the level of "Buy low, sell high."
Good luck finding him predicting where the piping needed to be a decade ago, given that he spent most of the intervening years first denying that anything was happening, then that anything manmade was happening, and finally that there was/is anything to be done about it.
There has always been drought.
There is always water in the top half of the country, and in Western Australia state.
...pouring into the sea...measured in "Sydney harbour" lots.....which is 'criminal' to let happen without harvesting it all and piping it nationwide.
China will soon do it when it takes over.