Sydney without water in 2012 - media aims for climate porn ...

By Christmas Eve in 2012, no rain has fallen in Sydney for more than 200 days and, despite its new desalination plant, the emerald city has run out of drinking water. The effects of climate change have created the conditions for a ring of bushfires that surround the city, but authorities don't have enough water to put them out.

See - News.com.au - Sign of the times or just climate porn.

Also see - Courier Mail - Nine's apocalyptic TV drama Scorched causes concern.

Also see - Daily Telegraph - TV show too hot for sensitive state government.

Also see - Scorched.

Perhaps the old Toowoomba City Council was planning its own mini-series:

By Christmas Eve in 2005, no rain has fallen in Toowoomba for more than 200 days and, despite attempts to locate bore water, the garden city has run out of drinking water. The effects of climate change have created the conditions for a ring of bushfires that surround the city, but authorities don't have enough water to put them out. The only thing that will save the city is the Mayor's planned recycled water plant.

Climate porn ...