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11/25/2017 / By Mike Adams

Water WARS erupting across our world as fresh water supplies collide with surging food demand

Water is a precious commodity, and without it we can’t grow food and survive. Yet industrial agriculture wastes water on a shocking scale, using open air irrigation and relying on fossil water supplies to grow food inefficiently. If we hope to meet the demands of surging human population, we must conserve our water resources through […]

08/08/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Climate change blamed for drying of Great Plains streams, but it’s actually caused by groundwater pumping for irrigation

Streams and rivers in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and other parts of the central Great Plains are drying up as farmers continue to pump groundwater to irrigate their crops, a new study found. Though climate change often gets blamed for turning creeks into dry riverbeds, the water needed to irrigate one sixth of the world’s grain […]

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