Port Augusta seeks Water Restriction Exemption to save City’s trees
| 29 August 2007 |
The driest provincial city in South Australia, Port Augusta has an average annual rainfall of just 220mm. In an effort to green the city and reduce dust problems, former parks and gardens supervisor John Zwar was instrumental in overseeing the planting of thousands of trees and shrubs around the city in the 1970s and 1980. Now those trees are under threat by the tough water restrictions that are being applied across the State, with some trees already dying.
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