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Profligate Water Use in the U.S. Is Fueling the Flight of Mexicans Across the Border

By Jo-Shing Yang, AlterNet. Posted November 11, 2008.


Green lawns, swimming pools, and corporate farms in the desert Southwest are taking their toll on our neighbors to the south.
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Jo-Shing Yang is the author of Ecological Planning, Design, & Engineering, Solving Global Water Crises: New Paradigms in Wastewater and Water Treatment, Small and On-Site Systems for Water Self-Sufficiency and Sustainability and can be reached at jsyang@alum.mit.edu.

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