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Did Arizona’s farmers realize any of this? One of William Martin and Helen Ingram’s graduate students, Nancy Laney, traveled around the state to find out. To her astonishment, most of the farmers didn’t. One of the farms Laney visited was the Farmers’ Investment Corporation, a huge pecan-growing operation south of Tucson that is about as far from the diversion point on the Colorado River as one can be. (Why pecans, which are native to the Mississippi Delta, should be grown on subsidized water in a desert state is another matter entirely.) If it arrives, CAP water will have surmounted a lift of ...more
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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