Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen
Middle East
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JAHILIYA, Yemen %u2014 More than half of this country%u2019s scarce water is used to feed an addiction. Even as drought kills off Yemen%u2019s crops, farmers in villages […] are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which are chewed every day by most Yemeni men (and …