'Beautiful and frightening': Australia's rivers under threat - in pictures

Photographic artist Paul Harmon visits the floodplains of the drought-stricken Murray-Darling basin in north-west New South Wales to showcase the preciousness of water and the attempts to harness it. The catchment, which has supported humans for tens of thousands of years, has made way for agriculture with monumental ramifications, Harmon says. His innovative series 'documents a severe and majestic beauty created by water and the excessive and ill-conceived demands we are currently making on it' Continue reading...