drought
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Trying To Buy Water Rights Shows How Backwards US Water Policy Is
Amidst all the dire drought news, you’ve probably been hearing about “water rights”, which are as weirdly abstract as they sound. So what’s the deal with water rights? Can you buy some yourself? When reporter Ryan Bradley sets out to get $US500 of water rights in The Adaptors podcast, it gets pretty hairy.
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Starbucks Sells California’s Scarce Water To ‘Help’ People Without Water
When you buy a bottle of water at Starbucks, five cents goes towards “improving the lives of people who lack vital resources,” according to the in-house brand named Ethos Water. That may be true, but there’s a catch: The water’s bottled in a part of California where people’s wells are running dry.
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Crickets Aren’t The Superfood They’re Cracked Up To Be
Bug-eating evangelists like to talk about how crickets are caloric magic, claiming the insects can transform table scraps into a crunchy, healthy protein. A new study debunks at least one aspect of what’s being touted everywhere as the food of the future.
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California Has Just One Year Of Water Reserves, So… Water Cannons?
Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has a terrifying piece in the Los Angeles Times about the future of California’s water. According to Famiglietti, the state has just one year of water in reserves.