Urban Water Basins and Farmers’ Pockets are filled by Empty Fields
4/21/2012 (Blog Date)
BRAWLEY, Calif. — Mr. Kalin and his brother enjoy a choice that their parents and grandparents never had. They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/science/earth/24water.html?_r=1&ref=preciouswaters
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