Federal Financing Water Crisis; Water-Guzzling Food Factory; Ratted Out for Watering Garden

(Before It's News)

Holy crop: How federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West. Cotton comes at enormous environmental expense, a price the American West may no longer be able to afford.

Kristof: Our water-guzzling food factory. Let’s start with a quiz. Which consumes the most water?

My neighbor ratted me out for watering my garden. Bring it on. A tech startup has figured out how to bring a measure of constructive drought shaming to communities that were once impervious to it.

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