Welcome to Citiwire.net! Water and food–the basics of human life–are the focus of this week’s columns. My piece reviews the growing concern (and potential Washington action) on global water supplies, an issue that’s acutely ecologic, humanitarian and geopolitical. I’ll do a column later on the promising and inventive low-tech, common-sense approaches that may spare regions, here and abroad, investment in massive “big pipe” infrastructure. … Our Citistates Group manager Farley Peters focuses on the Obama era’s new openness to local and regional-scale agriculture, symbolized by the new garden plot on the south lawn of the White House. Her article makes it clear she’s an avid gardener herself.
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