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Topic: water scarcity

A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

The world after water

Matthew Rozsa
Recycled water drips out of a nozzle at the Ironhouse Sanitation District residential recycled water fill station on May 20, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Half of Calif. is in "extreme drought"

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A water main manhole cover in a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Thirsty future for the American West

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
A woman holds a bagel she found in a garbage bag of pastries and bagels outside a shop in New York (Getty/Stan Honda)

Food waste: a bipartisan issue

Diane Stopyra
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Recent as well as older pinyon mortality near Mt. Frazier on the Mt. Pinos Ranger District of the Los padres National Forest. Also note that green trees are discolored and symptomatic of drought stress. (U.S. Forest Service)

Drought kills 12 million trees

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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