Touch the Soil News #2045 (photo – Irrigated Hay Field – Courtesy of NRCS/USDA) Farmland Grab News brings an insightful story about water. While the issues of over pumping are not new, it does remind us about a need that goes beyond just conservation and reduced use. The need is actually in reverse, more new…
Touch the Soil News #1928 (Feature Photo – North Fork Ranch Vinyard – Public Domain, USDA) Harvard University with its endowment fund bought a 6,565 acre farm (North Fork Ranch Vineyard) in California in an area already stressed for water. They overplanted with a vineyard and demanded more water. In the ensuring debates and reviews,…
Positive Future News #913 (Feature Photo – Singapore – CCA 2.0 Generic, Ray in Manila) Water awareness is as essential as political awareness, if not more. Politics can change, access to water can’t. The story of water in the United States is simple. Water sources, from rivers and from pumping out of the ground, have…
Touch the Soil News #1690 (Feature Photo – Nile River – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132837) Water is essential and overallocation of water resources is not just a problem for the 11 nations along the Nile river. Overallocation of water is at the heart of tensions for over half the United States from the Ogallala aquifer to…
