Water in Plain Sight Quotes

“Fully 80 percent of California’s developed water supply is used for agriculture.3 About half of all produce sold in the United States comes from California (primarily the megafarms in”
― Judith D. Schwartz, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World

“Australia’s native fauna are soft-footed, Andrew notes. Managed as they were, the hard-hoofed livestock imported from abroad damaged vegetation. This altered the floodplains’ ebb and flow. Cultivating crops according to European methods swiftly depleted the soil. Andrews explains: “Whenever rain falls on the soil it will start to move and transport soluble nutrients in the soil unless there are plants there to control it. If there are no plants there, whether because they were sprayed out or plowed out, the nutrients will be washed out of the soil by the moving water—that is, leached.”21”
― Judith D. Schwartz, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World

“Australia had mallee, a semi-arid ecosystem with grasses, shrubs and small trees. Retallack’s research demonstrates that African grassland soils contain significantly more carbon than do Australian mallee soils, even when mean annual precipitation is the same. Retallack attributes the difference to the wealth of hoofed mammals in Africa’s savanna. “Australia presents us with a view of what the world was like before the evolution of grasslands,” says Retallack.13”
― Judith D. Schwartz, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World

“—William A. Albrecht, “The Drought Myth: An Absence of Water Is Not the Problem”
― Judith D. Schwartz, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World