With water increasingly scarce in the West, a new program is allowing some farmers to sell their allotment of it for whatever price they can find, but it comes with a hitch.
Stories Related to Precious Waters: To Get Water To Cities, California Farmers Paid Not To Plant
By FELICITY BARRINGER, New York Times
Sun, 10/23/2011 - 9:39pm
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