Why Are California Farmers Irrigating Crops With Oil Wastewater?

EcoWatch
Oct 27, 2016, 11:26 am99 pts
In the last three years, farmers in parts of California's Central Valley irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possibly tainted with toxic chemicals, including chemicals that can cause cancer and reproductive harm, according to an Environmental Working…

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