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Beyond such techniques to reduce the dire consequences of future droughts, University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Miewald asked more fundamental questions about the way the nation uses its land. "What really is the problem in Marin County?" he asked his scientific colleagues. "Is it too little water? Or is it too many people? Has the area been developed beyond the capability of its resources to support people?" He suggested that perhaps people should live where water is available rather than haul water to where they want to live...
...Miewald pointed out that some South Dakota counties have been declared disaster areas for one reason or another four years in a row. "Are those people in the right line of work?" he asked. "Maybe Mother Nature is trying to tell us something." Americans, Miewald suggested, "might even have to forfeit the sacred right to have a green lawn" when water is scarce for growing wheat. "The era of abundance is over...
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