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Can desalination quench agriculture’s thirst?

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Ralph Loya's West Texas farm is about to become a pilot site to test how efficiently desalinated groundwater can be used to grow crops in otherwise water-scarce places.

Researchers have begun to puzzle out how brackish water, pulled from underground aquifers, might be de-salted cheaply.

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