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Replenishing Water and Wealth

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Have you ever crossed a dry river bed at one point in your life, then come back years later to see its waters flowing wildly to the sea? Have you seen fish leaping above the waves, ducks diving into backwater ponds, wild rice cropping up along the river’s edge, and dragonflies fluttering where they hadn’t been for years?

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Nabhan, G.P. (2018). Replenishing Water and Wealth. In: Food from the Radical Center. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-920-3_5

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