Ethanol vs. Water

I've mentioned here before I'm not too enthusiastic about ethanol, especially when corn is used to make it. My concerns are more along the line of corn being what's known as a heavy feeder, in gardening circles, requiring lots of fertilizer and draining the soil of nutrients.

The Sacramento Bee takes a look at ethanol from another angle this morning: What would the growing of all that corn for ethanol do to the state's water supplies? I don't know that I'd really thought of that until now.

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