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Southern Romania Is Being Swallowed By Desert
Communism and climate change created a dustbowl. Now, locals are fighting to bring the water back.
We're Sitting on a Groundwater 'Time Bomb,' Scientists Warn
Climate change could disrupt nearly half of the world's groundwater supply within 100 years.
You Don't Have to Waste Water to Have a Totally Badass Summer Garden
It doesn't take too many gallons of water to have the most braggable green-space on the block.
Forget CES, The World Ag Expo Is The Hottest Tech Trade Show
Motherboard visits one of the world's biggest farming exhibitions to find more gadgets than grain.
Drought-Stricken California Is Basically Running a Water Ponzi Scheme
The state's water control board has been promising to produce about five times more water than it actually can. Whoops.
Watch MIT's Amazing Fog Harvesters Produce Fresh Water in the Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert on the coast of Chile is home to one of the driest regions on Earth.
China's Irrigation System is Ridiculously Dirty
China has an incredible number of mouths to feed, and even with food imports from the U.S. booming, those hungry mouths require a whole lot of farmland. That farmland, meanwhile, requires the second-largest irrigation network in the world. Now, it...