Planning and management of water for agriculture in the tropics.

Australia

Geography
Australia has a land area of about 7.7 million Sq.Km. Although this is just five per cent of the world’s land mass, Australia is the planet’s sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil. It is also the only one of the largest six nations that is completely surrounded by water. Australia is the smallest of the world’s continents. It is also the lowest, the flattest and (apart from Antarctica) the driest. The highest point on the Australian mainland is Mount Kosciuszko, at 2228 metres above sea level. The lowest point is the dry bed of Lake Eyre, South Australia, which is 15 metres below sea level.

Population and land use
The population of Australia is about 25 million (2019) people with 85% of these living within 50 Km of the coasts. Population density ranges from above 10,000 people per Sk.Km to less than 0.2 pe ...Read more