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Metropolitan District yesterday ordered and other Boston community restrict their use of water the current drought...
...prices last year hit a seven-year low. Farmers responded to that slump by cutting their herds and reducing their feed bills, with the result that fewer and leaner cattle are now coming to market. At the same time, the vegetable supply has been shortened by acts of nature: drought in the Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced the availability of migrant workers to pick ripening crops. Federal economists...
...drought parched their lawns, the water department limited the hours when they could water them, whereupon the Cliffe blithely ignored the water department, causing the neighbors to go into a slow burn...
Passing out souvenir pens by the passel, Johnson explained that he had hastened to sign the bill "because we just cannot overemphasize and we cannot overdramatize and we cannot overreact to this nation's growing problem of water supply." He used the northeastern drought as an example of how bad things can get, said the long-term goal must be the "drought-proofing" of metropolitan areas by desalinizing sea water (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...most promising prospects for creating a major new industry lies in the sea. If U.S. scientists can develop a practical, economic way to desalt sea water, they will not only ease such regional problems as drought, but will generate demand for many kinds of machines and human skills. While more than 200 desalting plants are already operating around the world, including nine in the U.S., they have yet to surmount one vexing problem: cost. The desalting plants have been unable to produce fresh water for much less than $1 per 1,000 gal., which may be economical in a parched...