The Colorado River drought is coming for your winter veggies
The river waters a lot of our food. What happens as it dries up?
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Yuma, Arizona, along with California’s Imperial Valley, produces more than 90 percent of the country’s winter leafy greens and much of its vegetables. Arizona is also a major grower of wheat, which the state exports to Italy for making pasta.
We grow wheat in Arizona’s desert and ship it to Italy to make pasta? The insanity of it all.