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Season 2, Episode 3: Nest

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A Kingdom From Dust by Mark Ericks

The article is called a kingdom from dust and it's about the farming industry in central California. The amount of water that goes into, well, first off, central California is a desert. So all the water is piped in from snowmelt or other parts of the state or essentially mined from the aquifer below the earth. One year's worth of almonds could like be enough water for a San Francisco for a decade.

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