Australian Cities Timeline
Click on the screenshot below to open the interactive timeline.
The original virtual exhibition features an interactive timeline on Water Crisis in Australian Cities from 1888 to 2010. Visitors could browse the timeline chronologically or by one of the five cities showcased in the exhibition. Read an offline version of the timeline on the following pages or visit the online version here.
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Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s
In this exhibition, we invite visitors to consider the historical relationship of “water crises” of various kinds to the development of urban water systems, through the experience of the driest inhabited continent on earth, Australia. We have chosen a range of different departures from water-related business as usual—from shortage to flood, pollution to drainage—in the five mainland Australian state capitals from the late nineteenth century to the present. The part of this exhibition devoted to each city focuses thematically on just one or two kinds of crisis, while the timeline covers a wider range of events in each place.
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