New Dead Trees?

Good-News-Mike is on Twitter! http://twitter.com/PremierMikeRann as if you didn't know.
This morning he gives more good-news on his site below:-
People have asked how many trees have been planted in our 3 million trees campaign so far...1,71O,OOO trees and shrubs in metro Adelaide!

My question is, how many of them have survived without water? Anyone driving along South Tce in the city, will be shocked to see the dozens of mature dead trees starved of H2O and waiting for the chainsaw. New plantings don't have a chance without water.