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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......
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Australia: Rising sea a threat to riverside homes
Posted by Sydney Morning Herald: Nicole Hasham on November 3rd, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation