Peru’s Asparagus Industry Is Sucking Wells Dry

Image credit: Nick Hepworth/Progressio/Water Witness Intl Whenever I go to my mom’s for dinner, there is asparagus. She’s 92 and thinks that getting cheap and fresh asparagus year round from Peru is proof that all is well in the world, a gift of globalism and technology. But as Felicity Lawrence notes in the Guardian, it is not such a great gift for anyone. Firstly, they are running out of water…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Peru’s Asparagus Industry Is Sucking Wells Dry

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