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"Look at the trees, they're dying. There's no water here, nothing whatsoever."
An Aboriginal woman wearing glasses and a blue high-vis shirt

A map showing towns and bore sites in the Pilbara.

"We're talking about [water levels] going from within 5 metres of the surface to now, in lots of areas, closer to 10 metres below the surface,"
he said.
Exposed tree roots jutting out from a dry river bed

A line and bar graph with the words: 'rainfall levels in the Karratha region' written at the top

An Aboriginal man in a wide-brim hat sprays water from his mouth as part of a cultural ritual.

Portrait of an Aboriginal man with a grey beard, wearing a wide-brim hat

A man in a suit poses in front of a screen displaying an image of a man in high-vis and a hard hat.

A stream of water shoots into the air at an industrial facility filled with piles of crushed up iron-ore

A dark-skinned man wearing a black cap holds a walking stick. He is walking along a dried river bed.

"I'm kind of blown away that water is still on country after 50 years [of mining]."
Low angle of railway tracks at sun rise nestled among rocky bushland

"My people have been here for 60,000 years and we're still arguing over water."
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