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Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow.

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Marq de Villiers

Marq de Villiers is a celebrated author and journalist. He has written 15 books, including Water: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource, winner of the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction and the Canadian Science Writers Award. In 2010, he was appointed to the Order of Canada. He lives in Eagle Head, Nova Scotia