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COMMENTS: High Desert
The Green is Universal western swing by NBC anchor Brian Williams continued. Monday Lee Cowan kicked off NBC's weeklong Our Planet series by looking for energy saving flat screen television sets. Now Anne Thompson travels to the drought-parched high desert of Arizona to show how to conserve water: showers can be retrofitted with a pause button; dirty laundry water redirected to orchards; yards planted with native plant species. In the past decade, Thompson told us, the city of Flagstaff has cut its water consumption even as its population has grown--21% more people, 37% less H2O.
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