How thirsty cities could put...

How thirsty cities could put salt on your fruit: "As a lifelong Imperial Valley farmer, Linden Anderson knows well the dusty havoc a desert windstorm can dump on his crops. Gusts of dirt and sand so thick they halt traffic can instantly coat his 2,000 acres of mango trees in a layer of grit. Now, he and other produce farmers here are concerned that the latest round of California's water wars will add an unsavory dose of salt to the wind whipping over their crops. If a pending proposal to divert 65 billion gallons of the Imperial Valley's irrigation water annually to San Diego goes through the largest transfer of water from agricultural to municipal use in US history the water line of the nearby Salton Sea would be lowered, allowing the wind to scour the exposed sea bed."