Killing the land, pumping the aquifers dry, disturbing the entire ecosystem … for what? Maybe 25 years before it is abandoned because there is nothing left!? This was the most depressing and disturbing article (“Sucked Dry,” August 2021); it was all I could do to finish it. We will end up destroying ourselves, guaranteeing we will be ancestors to no one.
Donna Buessing
Brentwood, California
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Sucked dry.
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