Water uncertainty becomes more significant than ever
May 19, 2009

A panel discussion at the Field Museum in Chicago last week discussed the importance of the water in the Great Lakes and the Midwest as a whole. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, argued that the very way in which water is priced makes the world's water balance difficult to maintain. The importance of water to agriculture -- and the resulting effects that agriculture has on water -- stands out among the most important issues to bear in mind when these weighty topics are discussed. States like Iowa and Nebraska effectively export lots of water in the form of "virtual water" inside food crops.

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