"We left that land before the irrigation technology came along and it was irrigated to within an inch of its life. That land is now polluted and the rivers and the lakes downstream from it, in Galatea, are polluted. But the value of the land has risen sharply, because of the number of milk solids it produces."

#BernardHickey, 2023

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