Water’s historically cheap price has turned the U.S. hydrologic - TopicsExpress



          

Water’s historically cheap price has turned the U.S. hydrologic cycle abjectly illogical. Pennies-per-gallon water makes it rational for homeowners to irrigate lawns to shades of Oz even during catastrophic droughts like the one gripping California. On the industrial side, water laws that evolved to protect historic uses rather than the health of rivers and aquifers can give farmers financial incentive to use the most strained water sources for the least sustainable crops.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:40:36 +0000

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