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NYTimes: Farm Subsidies Leading to More Water Use

Posted Mon, 2013/06/17 - 9:09am by RCAP

A June 6 article in The New York Times reports that millions of dollars in federal subsidies to help farmers buy better irrigation systems to conserve water is having the exact opposite effect. New studies show many farmers are misusing the money and are using even more water, the newspaper reports. This is affecting aquifers.

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TED Talk: Can We End the Global Water Crisis?

Posted Mon, 2013/06/10 - 2:56pm by RCAP

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

Posted Mon, 2013/06/10 - 2:02pm by RCAP

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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