Here in California's thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat
rows of crops, it's a proposition that seems to make sense: using
treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops.
Oil giant Chevron
recycles 21 million gallons of that water each day and sells it to
farmers who use it on about 45,000 acres of crops, about 10% of Kern
County's farmland.
READ MORE:http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-oil-water-20150503-story.html#page=1
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