Putting a Price on Groundwater Gets Farmers to Use Less, Study Shows
July 30, 2024
July 30, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute issued the following news:
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Groundwater has been free to farmers in most of the world, including California, leading to rapid resource depletion. A new study finds that when California farmers have to pay for that water, they use less, switching their land to crops that require less water or no crops at all.
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Summer is the center of the gro . . .
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Groundwater has been free to farmers in most of the world, including California, leading to rapid resource depletion. A new study finds that when California farmers have to pay for that water, they use less, switching their land to crops that require less water or no crops at all.
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Summer is the center of the gro . . .