Californa Drought Raises Rural-Urban Tensions over Water (ChristianScienceMonitor)
Apr.18, 2009 in
Drought
(April 17, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor)
California’s third year of drought is stirring up long-standing – and usually low-simmering – tensions between farmers in northern and central California and urban consumers in the state’s dry Southland.
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