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  • It's party time on a hot summer day. River tanking in plastic livestock-watering containers is a popular tourist draw along the shallow Calamus River in central Nebraska. With two-thirds of the Ogallala’s water underlying it, the state’s wealth of groundwater feeds countless springs, streams, and rivers.<br />
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There is so much fossil water available in NE that a couple of cowboys figured out how to float the river in cow tanks. Now ranchers use tourism to supplement ranch income in hard times and as many as 350 tourists float the river on one day. The Calamus is spring fed from the Ogallala aquifer.
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  • Containers from all over the world are unloaded at Port of Oakland.
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  • Men transport containers of water in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • A woman with a dry well cooks with water from a five-gallon container. They haul water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck. They need about 100 gallons of water they truck home for cooking and bathing.<br />
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Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A man washes his windshield while waiting to unload a container ship.
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  • A woman pours water in the kitchen sink to wash dishes. The family who has a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck. They need about 100 gallons of water they truck home for cooking and bathing.<br />
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Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • Clay pots piled on a tomb of the Lord of Sipan archeological site near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley.<br />
Archaeologists uncovered burial places of several lesser important figures besides royalty at Sipan. One, a high priest, had a tomb almost as impressive as the royal ones. Another burial contained 1,137 pots shaped into warriors, priests, prisoners, musicians, and anthropomorphic deities.
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  • A Pygmy net hunter captures a blue duiker in a net near a hunting camp deep in the Ituri Forest. A duiker is a small antelope and main source of protein for Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mbuti drape nets between trees and flush game toward them.
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  • An Mbuti hunter carries a net of twined liana bark as the Pgymies trek through the Ituri forest to set up a camp.
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  • A man swings a club at a Golf Driving Range, off the Fourth Ring Road lined with skyscrapers in Beijing, China
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  • Tailgaters watch a Lions game on TV, parked in the erstwhile Grand Michigan Theater.
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  • View of a church through the steamy windows of a restaurant.
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  • Pygmies sort out the hunting nets they made  with twined liana bark in the Ituri Forest.
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  • An Mbuti hunter drapes a net between trees to catch game. Pymgy tribes of Congo are one of the few remaining traditional tribes of the rainforest.
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  • An Mbuti hunter carries a net of twined liana bark on his head that is used as a net to capture prey as the semi-nomadic tribe moves through the Ituri Forest.
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  • Biologists searching for fish specimens in the Potaro River.
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  • House with swan flower planter sits on a post above a wagon wheel in front yard that marks the driveway.
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  • Children play on a trampoline outside their home in a backyard West Virginia mountain holler.
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  • An emotional, drunken woman sits alone at a table in a bar in Shanghai.
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  • A young woman, lost in thought, sits inside a popular McDonald's restaurant. <br />
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The Chinese food culture has been finely tuned for 3,000 years, but some are more effected than others from the influence of a western food culture.  <br />
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When a steady diet of junk food is consumed over time, many Chinese become overweight which is unlike traditional Chinese practicing customary Chinese eating habits.
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  • A black tip reef shark swims in an aquarium at a seafood restaurant.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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China consumes the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China’s seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons. It is followed by the European Union – 13 million tons, Japan – 7.4 million tons, the United States – 7.1 million tons and India – 4.8 million tons.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery.<br />
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Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • A customer at a live reef fish restaurant in Guangzhou where a variety of large fish swim in tank behind her.<br />
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China consumes the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China’s seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons. <br />
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Chinese prefer fresh, live fish to processed fish in a factory.
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  • Photographer Randy Olson stands in a slippery sea of jellyfish to make images of workers at a fishery in China..
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  • The rapid growth of cities like Kolkata can be attributed largely to rural-urban migration. A large group of "Untouchables" bath in former British horse watering trough in Kolkata, Bengal State, India. <br />
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More than 160 million people in India are Dalit or Untouchables who are tainted by their birth inso a caste system that deems them impure. They are relegated to the lowest jobs and live in fear of being publicly humiliated, beaten, and raped by upper castes seeking to keep them in their place. <br />
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They are not allowed to drink from the same wells, attend the same temples or wear shoes in the presence of an upper cast according to a Human Rights Watch senior researcher.
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  • Pythons, boa contstictors and other exotic snakes for sale.
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  • A boy begs his father for a pet leopard gecko at a breeder show.
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  • An inhabited house is next in line to be vacated and burned down as a coal company moves out families in the way of a growing mine. The homes were company owned.
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  • In the shadow of huge cargo ships, freighters and battleships, a Valparaiso fisherman paints his boat. The primary gateway for Chile's thriving export business, ships are loaded with copper, fruit, wine and timber to ports worldwide.
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  • Men from a food internet ordering company deliver in re-used glass jars as an attempt to reduce one-use-plastic.
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  • In an effort to eliminate plastic waste, a restaurant has all of their wine, beer, soft drinks delivered in large stainless steel tanks that they keep fresh with pressurized gas system.
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  • Tupperware for sale in Mumbai, India.
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  • A Tupperware party in Mumbai, India.
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  • A Tupperware party in Mumbai, India.
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  • Men sing as they transfer water from one to the other up the walls of a well.
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  • Nyangatom women collect water.
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  • A Ladin man collects a pail of water from a cattle trough and traverses carefully across a sheet of ice. Life is hard in rural, isolated villages like LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • Samoans make baskets
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  • Samoans make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoans make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoans in the vegetation they need to make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoans in the vegetation they need to make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoans in the vegetation they need to make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoan workers trudge through vegetation carrying machetes and bundles made of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoans in the vegetation they need to make baskets of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Samoan workers trudge through vegetation carrying machetes and bundles made of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • A flash goes off as a young woman in a dimly lit blue-lit bar snaps a photo with her camera.
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  • A young woman sits alone having a drink in a darkly lit bar.
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  • A woman points while young people enjoy drinks and conversation in a crowded bar.<br />
Flashing neon strobe lights electrify night spot that attracts young people in Shanghai.
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  • Flashing neon strobe lights electrify the dance floor creating a hypnotic scene at a bar scene attracting young people in Shanghai.
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  • A man awkwardly leans into his date at a popular, packed bar.
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  • A woman and children stand in line at the check-out of the first Sam's Club store in China.
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  • Young people converge nearby an American chain coffee-house in the Xintiandi mall area.
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  • A young woman sits on a barstool in a crowded bar in Guangzhou.
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  • A Rapa Nui woodworker sands small statues of moai to sell to tourists. Nearly 100,000 travelers make the trek to the most remote inhabited island in the world.
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  • Workers at the Senevisa shrimp processing factory wear uniforms and hairnets.<br />
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The plant in Dakar processes 4.5 tons of shrimp a day brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.
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  • The Aquarium Trade Mall in Guangzhou where colorful fish swim in crowded waters.<br />
China is the world's leading seafood consumer. The country consumes around 22 million metric tons of seafood each year
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  • The Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market.<br />
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China is the world's leading seafood consumer. The country consumes around 22 million metric tons of seafood each year.
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  • The Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market is popular among the Chinese who the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China's seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons.
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  • A pair of cuttlefish in a Chinese restaurant tank where customers are attracted to see the fresh fish for a dinner.
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  • Workers transport buckets full of jellyfish at a fishery.<br />
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A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.<br />
Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see the masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.
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  • A long line fishermen works on the boat in Olafsvik.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • The Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market is popular among the Chinese who the largest quantity of seafood in the world and consequently, imports the most. China's seafood consumption accounts for 45% of the global volume, meaning 65 million tons out of 144 million tons.
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  • Over 5,000 meals of bluefin tuna are prepared at the Bonita Fesitiva in Spain.
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  • The ZHAPO Live Seafood Wholesale Market where vendors display catch in aquariums in China.
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  • The fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. A maze of lines hooked up to a tall pole on the beach provide electricity to homes.
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  • Pelicans reach for fish in a bucket on a beach where artisanal fishermen work and live in Senegal.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish before transport to China and Hong Kong. Colorful fish also swim freely around the cages.
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  • Fish swim around the hanging cages holding reef fish before transport to China and Hong Kong.
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  • Hanging cages hold lobsters being harvested off the coast of Palau Misa in Indonesia.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong. The nets capture a variety of fish and marine life extracted from the ocean.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish to be transported to China and Hong Kong.    <br />
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These cages are located just off the coast of Bimi, Indonesia. Initially reef fish only came from the South China Sea, but transport developed and fish now come from all over S.E. Asia. The fish are often used for celebratory meals in Hong Kong, but in Guangzhou the fish are so cheap and the apartments are so small that many people eat out. And the stereotype is that there is lots of food left on the table.  Often a fish is popular because of its color more than its taste.
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  • A black tip reef shark swims in an aquarium at a seafood restaurant in China.
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  • A seafood restaurant in Guangzhou serves reef fish that swim in an aquarium in the dining area for patrons to see the fresh fish.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a Zhapo, China fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.<br />
Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • A fisherman ties up his boat on the coast of Valparaiso where other brightly painted fishing boat are dwarfed by freighters and battleships. The city of Valparaiso is a busy seaport located west of Santiago.
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  • Women workers move dirt out of a giant reservoir of water.
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  • Pythons, boa contstictors and other exotic snakes for sale.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • Limes in a jar ready for tropical drinks at Scotty's in Coconut Grove.
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  • Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon from the hatch of their fishing boat. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • Workers unload and weigh fish on the dock of a cannery. Petersburg port has the largest home-based halibut fleet in Southeast Alaska.
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  • A widow looks forward to the ritual of checking her mailbox daily. Her faithful canine companion Leica waits patiently along the snowy road in the Alps.
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  • Residents gaze at a Nile monitor lizard captured near their homes.
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  • A family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • Kanoa family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • A few boxes are left as this family packs to move from their home because of an encroaching mine in their back yard.  The impacts on communities of blowing up mountains and dumping the rubble into streams are profound. It forces residents to contend with contaminated drinking water, increased flooding, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, and higher rates of cancer and other health issues.
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  • Men with bucket and ladder walk to the garden to pick apples. The family grows corn, tomatoes, beans and potatoes on their land, Several generations of the family lived in the West Virginia holler until an encroaching mountaintop removal mine forced them to leave.
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  • Men cook ramps in the church kitchen during spring ramps dinner while women greet families who gather at long tables for the traditional feast.
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  • Jars of green beans and tomatoes from the Caudill-Miller family garden that will be consumed throughout the year. Canning in mason jars is an annual ritual.
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  • Man fills a jug of drinking water from a spring pouring out on the side of the road. Many West Virginia residents mistrust the safety of tap water because of a common coal-industry practice: pumping chemical-laden wastewater directly into the ground. It can leech into the water table and turn what was drinkable well water into a poisonous cocktail of chemicals.<br />
He trusts this roadside stream more than the well beside his home.
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  • A workman on a flatbed truck unloads a large storage tank at a gas drilling site. The petroleum industry has been exploring for oil and gas in Wyoming for over 135 years. In 1884 the first oil well was drilled southeast of Lander.
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  • The Rohe family shucks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • Women gather compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • A woman gathers compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • A woman gathers compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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