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Guardian: Asparagus grown in Peru and sold in the UK is commonly held up as a symbol of unacceptable food miles, but a report has raised an even more urgent problem: its water footprint. The study, by the development charity Progressio, has found that industrial production of asparagus in Peru's Ica valley is depleting the area's water resources so fast that smaller farmers and local families are finding wells running dry. Water to the main city in the valley is also under threat, it says. It ......
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How Peru’s wells are being sucked dry by British love of asparagus
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 14th, 2010
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