More than 60 percent of U.S. in drought

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_re_us/northern_plains_drought;_ylt=AmllFxv6d185TVxrY4zMZzADW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDhxNDFzBHNlYwNtZW5ld3M-

More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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think this will wake up beer drinkers?

water wars - food wars

[pooja]

1. along with the tropical rainforests...

[NVMojo]

2. ...and too clueless to notice

[electron_blue]

3. Yes, and you have to dig a bit to find a story on it.

this should be one of the top headlines in the U.S. The denial is breathtaking sometimes.

[lapfog_1]

4. We are less than a decade away from crop failures

like North Korea has experienced.