摘要: Debate continues to rage as the veracity of evidence around permanence climate change. There is no doubt that changes are occurring across world and these causing significant social hardship, including food water insecurity large-scale movements people. What also emerging in research impacts adaptations highly gendered. This article draws on several years Australian drought more recent declining availability Murray—Darling Basin Australia. It notes impacts, particularly remote irrigation areas, out gendered changes. The argues for sensitive rights-based policy address people who under extraordinary stress during times unparalleled