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TED Talk: Can We End the Global Water Crisis?

It is too late to end the global freshwater crisis, but a sustainable water future is still possible. That is the takeaway thought from University of California-Irvine Professor Jay Famiglietti, who shared a TEDx talk on National Geographic.

NPR: When You Waste Food, You're Wasting Tons Of Water, Too

Most of us know to turn the faucet off when we're done using it because, well, to leave it on would be wasting water.

A place where water is wasted that we might not think about, according to a June 6 story on NPR, is food that we throw away.

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Washington Post: What does rural mean? Uncle Sam has more than a dozen answers.

On June 9, The Washington Post carried a front-page article about the federal government's multiple definitions of rural for the variety of programs it has for residents of those areas of the country.