[Terrapreta] expansion (con't)

[lou gold]

June 3, 2008
 Warming Leads to Water Shortage and 'Africanization' of Spain By ELISABETH
ROSENTHAL<http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=ELISABETH%20ROSENTHAL&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ELISABETH%20ROSENTHAL&inline=nyt-per>

FORTUNA, Spain — Lush fields of lettuce and hothouses of tomatoes line the
roads. Verdant new developments of plush pastel vacation homes beckon buyers
from Britain and Germany. Golf courses — dozens of them, all recently built
— give way to the beach. At last, this hardscrabble corner of southeast
Spain is thriving.

There is only one problem with the picture of bounty: this province, Murcia,
is running out of water. Swaths of southeast Spain are steadily turning into
desert, a process spurred on by global
warming<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>and
poorly planned development.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/europe/03dry.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
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