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Nevada farmers shake up traditional water rights with a new way to fight scarcity

by Kaleb Roedel

Sep 23, 2022

Growers agreed to a plan that requires all irrigators to reduce their water use over time, instead of using a senior water rights strategy.

Marty Plaskett, a hay farmer in Diamond Valley, Nevada, stands near one of the irrigation pivots that waters his alfalfa field.

Kaleb Roedel/Mountain West News Bureau

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Climate change may force 200 million people to migrate, study says

by Samantha Fields

Sep 14, 2021

And the mass migrations could start within a decade, according to a new report from the World Bank.

A farmer walks among orange trees dried out by a drought in Morocco's southern plains in October 2020. Water scarcity will likely be a cause of migration in Northern Africa over the coming decades, according to a World Bank report.

Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images

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