Adelaide Now: THE plight of the River Murray has shown how environmental disaster can be allowed to sneak up on us despite ample warning, and opportunity for those charged with planning the future, to take preventative action.
A prolonged drought threatened to be the straw that broke the river system's back, but the cause of the potential disaster was 100 years of over-extraction of water for human use.
Fortunately for the river system and all those who rely on it, at a minute to midnight governments were...