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NickB79

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7. This article gives water requirements for popular foods

Reply to Bigmack (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 03:37 PM

Feb 2015

It's pretty stunning, actually: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/food-water-footprint_n_5952862.html

If we TRULY wanted to prepare for a coming megadrought, the PROPER course of action isn't to try to keep farming the Southwest and South-central Plains. It would be to return those lands to native grasses that have adaptations to dealing with such droughts, and MAYBE use the land for light grazing.

Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains has been one huge mistake since we took plows to the prairie a century ago.

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