Drought in Australia food bowl worsens. Drought in Australia's main food growing region of the Murray-Darling
river system has worsened, with water inflows over the past two years
at an all-time low, the government's top water official said on Tuesday.
The drought will hit irrigated crops such as rice, grapes and
horticulture the hardest, but would have less impact on output of
wheat, which depends largely on rainfall during specific periods and is
on track to double after two years of shrunken crops.