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HOMESTEAD - Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist. HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, ...