ABSTRACT
The reduced rainfall in southeast Australia has placed this region’s urban and rural communities on escalating water restrictions, with anthropogenic climate change forecasts suggesting that this drying trend will continue. To mitigate the stress this may place on domestic water supply, governments have encouraged the installation of large domestic water tanks in towns and cities throughout this region. These prospective stable mosquito larval sites create the possibility of the reintroduction of Ae. aegypti from Queensland, where it remains endemic, back into New South Wales (NSW) and other populated centers in Australia, along with the associated emerging and re-emerging dengue risk if the virus was to be introduced.
