This report outlines the connections between the water, agriculture and climate crises and the role industrial agriculture has played in contributing to the problem. Because these three areas are so inter-connected they can no longer be handled in isolation from each other and a comprehensive approach is now needed.
It is time for us to get serious about understanding the way climate change affects water resources for food production and conversely the way agricultural water use is leading to climate change.
In the U.S. we are experiencing areas with too much water or outright drought. Each crisis gives us yet another opportunity to examine and challenge the issues we need to find solutions for: unfettered development, water intensive energy production, inefficient agricultural water use.
This paper is part of an ongoing attempt to assess the privatization of water services as a governmental response to the decline in water services infrastructure, particularly in the U.S.
A recent study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has linked the routine use of the antibiotic tetracycline, popular in swine production, to the presence of antibiotics resistance genes in groundwater.
U.S. farmers have planted a post-World War II record amount of land with corn. Researchers report an all-time record for the size of the dead (hypoxic) zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Is there a connection?
