“How a shrinking city, aging infrastructure and racism left thousands of Jacksonians without water for weeks.”
water crisis
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American Green
How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Food, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Arizona’s Aquifers Are a Laboratory of Our Dry Future
After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.
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Drought In Post-Apartheid Cape Town: An Interview with Eve Fairbanks
United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.
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Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid?
Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, profile, Quotes
The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire
Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.
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Nestlé Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry
The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.
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Stephen Rodrick Returns Home to Flint
The human damage is incalculable. Think of a mother waking in the middle of the night to make formula for her baby girl and unwittingly using liquid death as a mixer. Lead poisoning stunts IQs in children, many of whom in Flint are already traumatized by poverty, arson and rampant gunfire outside their doors. And […]