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An Apple a Day Keeps the Drought Away
The fruit industry used 2.6% of water extracted from the Murray-Darling Basin.
By Geoff Russell
Think twice the next time you see fruit trees portrayed in media reports about diminishing water allocations in the Murray–Darling Basin.
Geoff Russell is a member of Animal Liberation and author of CSIRO Perfidy, in which he argues that The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet is the most environmentally destructive diet on the planet. This article is a reworking of a piece originally published on bravenewclimate.com.
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