Farmers in Western Australia’s south-west corner are adapting to a life with less water

When it comes to rainfall, south-west Western Australia has been hit by climate change harder than almost anywhere on earth, according to climatologist Pandora Hope from the Bureau of Meteorology.

“South-west Western Australia was very much one of the first places to really see the shift that we expect with global warming, so it’s had one of the biggest changes compared to many places in the world,” she said.

Pandora Hope said there had been about a 16 per cent decline in the region’s…