Christina Larson has been one of my favorite writers on China’s environment for a while, and this week her article To save rivers, she helps farmers was published in the Christian Science Monitor. A topic that I seem to be running into more and more, Larson’s core focus of the article is the relationship between agriculture and water pollution. Like the 11 year old in Chongqing we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Larson’s article follows a Chengdu resident as she looked to clean up Chengdu’s water and followed the evidence upstream.. literally. Unlike many articles, and many lines of thought, the evidence did not lead her to a mega factory that was dumping its chemicals out the back door. It lead to the farms that fed the city with produce.