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The future of your fresh water supply has been questionable for decades due to misuse and abuse.
OK, I read your links.
The first two both refer back to the same GAO report. And neither comes to the conclusion that the entire nation will experience a water crisis -rather, some places are currently experiencing water issues and some places may in the future experience some water crises. The second link refers to reported higher concentrations of uranium levels in the drinking water in some western states. None of your links indicate a water crisis for the nation as a whole. It seems to me that the position you are advancing is similar to claiming that hurricanes are a national crisis when they only affect areas near the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Additionally, all of these issues you bring up are happening either now (e.g. California drought) or projected to happen in the future (western North Carolina running out of water). I'm not saying that there aren't currently water issues in some sections of the United States now, or that there won't be some local or regional water issues in the future. But that's not relevant to the question asked - why is Australia not one of the most populous countries in the world?.
The simple fact remains that Australia still has less potable water than the United States. Australia is mostly desert, dry grassland, and tropical/equatorial land. Those sections that are semi-tropical or temperate (and are most conducive to human population) are on the southern and eastern coasts. Australia isn't populous like the United States because Australia doesn't now have the potable water supply that the United States historically had over the past several centuries.
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Even with modern technology you can't have more people than there is enough food and water to provide for. Australia is mostly barren desert. What people forget about American cities like Phoenix is we have huge areas of farmland elsewhere that can ship them food. The SW is also blessed with a large river fed by Colorado mountain snow to get water from. Without the Colorado River LA, Phoenix, and Las Vegas would be Barstow
Off the coast is mostly swamp with deadly creatures.
So it was originally intended by the British as a worthy place to put away dangerous criminals.
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