Reuters: Farmers in Australia’s food bowl Murray-Darling river basin need to adapt to ongoing water shortages as climate change prolongs the worst drought in a century, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday. The basin, which covers an area the size of France and Germany, accounts for 41 percent of Australia’s agriculture and provides A$21 billion (US$17.6 billion) of food exports. “We can and must adjust for a future where there is likely to be less water,” Wong told …