Like Water in the Desert

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Arts, Science, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Over the past century, we've transformed the arid lands of the American west into year-round, well-irrigated agricultural powerhouses. Today, fruits, nuts, and nearly all of our leafy greens are grown in the desert, using water diverted, stored, and supplied at taxpayer expense. This intense irrigation is having an impact: Reservoir levels are dropping, rivers are drying up, and the state of Arizona is literally sinking. With the help of agroecologist Gary Nabhan, farmers Ramona and Terry Button, and others in the region, we ask the big questions: Should we be farming in the desert? What would a water-saving system even look like? And does a tiny bean that smells like desert rain hold the secret to survival in a hotter, drier world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.4	I grew up in England where, as you might have heard, it rains a lot. So this kind of excitement
1:25.2	over less than two tenths of an inch of rainfall is foreign to me. Or at least it was foreign
1:31.4	to me until I moved to Los Angeles.
1:33.4	We had a pretty bad drought this summer in New England, but still we've had far more
1:36.6	rain than UNA or than Brad Lancaster in Tucson, Arizona. Make sense since you both basically
1:42.2	live in the desert.
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1:53.4	civil war hero who was the first white person to navigate the length of the Colorado River
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