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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND marine life AND Northwest AND water conflicts
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Quite a Pear
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29 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Quite a Pear There have been wars fought over oil and opium, spices and sugarcane -- and now it seems there is a war brewing in Washington state over pears. The battle was touched off when the Seattle-based Washington Environmental Council sent a letter to an irrigation district in the eastern part of the state threatening legal actions if the district didn't stop diverting so much water to or ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, Northwest, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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