PM Howard calls water crisis summit ...

Excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Howard calls top level water crisis summit

5 November 2006

The Prime Minister will today announce the convening of an extraordinary crisis summit with three state premiers to thrash out Australia's dramatically worsening water shortage.

Prompted by the seriously deteriorating situation in the Murray-Darling Basin, Mr Howard rang NSW Premier Morris Iemma on Friday night, urging him to go to Canberra on Tuesday.

He also rang Mr Iemma's Victorian and South Australian counterparts, Steve Bracks and Mike Rann, summoning them and their water ministers to the emergency meeting.

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