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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: 'Freshwater Scarcity Risk Rises in U.S. and Eighth District'
July 02, 2021
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 2 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following regional economist article on July 2, 2021, by senior policy analyst Suzanne Jenkins:

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In the 1746 edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, Benjamin Franklin quipped, "When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."/1

Two hundred seventy-five years later, the U.S. that Franklin helped found is now facing that proverbial dry well as regions of the . . .

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