Sydney Morning Herald: WATER will swamp homes and businesses from Haberfield to Homebush as rising sea levels inundate the Parramatta River foreshore over the next century, a new analysis shows. The findings are critical as valuable river frontage becomes increasingly urbanised and former industrial sites are redeveloped into housing. Even under a limited sea level rise of 0.4 metres, predicted by 2050, the area of riverside land submerged every year would increase by 450 per cent on current levels. Once the sea...
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/rising-sea-a-threat-to-riverside-homes-20121102-28phj.html
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