Briefly: Arizona growers trade cotton crops for water-saving rubber plants

Popular Science reports that native rubber plants in Arizona, which use far less water than cotton, for instance, are being cultivated by water-short farmers who are finding a ready market with tire manufacturers who want to sell sustainable tires.

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