Thirst turns to anger as Australia’s mighty river runs dry

By Tracey Nearmy MENINDEE, Australia (Reuters) - Reduced to a string of stagnant mustard-coloured pools, fouled in places with pesticide runoff and stinking with the rotting carcasses of cattle and fish, the Darling River is running dry. The parched earth of Australia's longest waterway, if tributaries are included, is in the grip of the continent's most severe drought in a century

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