December 01, 2017
Weekly Wave
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5 vol.
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no. 33
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Water Resources Research Center
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Tucson, AZ
UA's Daily Wildcat student newspaper featured food sustainability in an article recently, highlighting the work of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the WRRC. Student journalist Hannah Dahl quoted Jeffrey Silvertooth, Associate Dean of Cooperative Extension and Economic Development in CALS, and Sharon Megdal, Director of the WRRC. According to Dahl, there is no universal definition of sustainability and many different views on how it can be achieved. CALS addresses sustainability questions by applying scientific research to real-world problems. "We're all in this together, in terms of how do we sustain a population over time in the desert, with limited resources, in a practical way," said Silvertooth.