Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia
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This is a story of one of the most wasteful water policies ever conceived by human beings.
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The "grow food" policy has delivered disproportionate benefits to rich Saudis, i.e., princes ARE the farm lobby. Note that production is shifting form wheat to alfalfa (http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/06/when-rivers-run-dry-review.html), so now there's "Saudi milk."
Unless I'm missing something, wasn't the Saudi wheat stuff already covered? http://mruniversity.com/wheat-water-and-saudi-arabia-optional
Maybe Tyler or Alex walked through one too many water deficient villages and thought this was an error worth beating twice?