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The the practice of outdoor defecation is a major cause of diarrheal diseases that kill about 2,200 children a day - more than die from HIV/AIDS, malaria…
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America’s biggest food production companies face a growing threat of water scarcity, according to a new report from Ceres, an environmental sustainability…
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What's a fair way to divide up California's scarce water? The current system relies heavily on history: Some farmers will get water, others won't, based simply on when their land was first irrigated.
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Farms in California use as much as four times the water consumed by cities and towns. Now farmers are on defense after the governor decided to mostly exempt them from new, sweeping water cutbacks.
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On this week's Under the Microscope, water quality in Missouri does not meet federal regulations, a lawsuit over eggs between Missouri and California, and…
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Ameren Missouri says it plans to increase testing of water near its nuclear power plant in Callaway County.The company is required to test water at its 14…
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Our neighbors in St. Louis and Kansas City are two of 25 cities in the U.S. to get a perfect score on the 2013 Municipal Equality Index, or MEI. Columbia…
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This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which we talk about important issues related to food production.Thanks to tight…
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Farmers across the country are being encouraged to sign up for federal conservation programs. The catch is, as of now, the programs have no funding.Scott…
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This spring and summer, U.S. Geological Survey scientists waded into 100 Midwest streams to test for hundreds of chemicals used in farming, including…