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Elisabeth Eaves

5-15-2008 1:50 PM

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Elisabeth Eaves says:

Saving water is good -- but taking shorter showers won't have much impact on overall water supply. William Pentland reports on Forbes.com on just how much water agriculture and industry use.

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5-15-2008 2:47 PM

masbury

Surely irrigated agriculture is a dinosaur that needs to die.

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