This article originally appeared in the Ag Journal. Read the original article here. While a series of hurricanes were bringing catastrophic flooding to America’s overdeveloped coastline, Tershia d’Elgin was drawing on her experiences helping to manage an irrigated farm along the South Platte River in northeastern Colorado to make the point that unchecked urbanization that displaces farms makes the environment less adaptable and resilient, with dire consequences for urban and

This article originally appeared in the Ag Journal. You can read it here. Kevin Niles runs the Arkansas Groundwater Users Association, charged with providing augmentation water for well owners in the Arkansas Basin. Farmers come to his office to pay to offset the water they use by pumping their wells, and it is his job to go out and find water to replace it, typically by buying water on the spot market. He knows that doesn’t exactly make him their favorite person. Add to tha