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Water conservation companies are finding plenty of opportunities in the South’s drought conditions

By Jeremy Quittner

Walking through a soybean field in rural Georgia’s Flint River Basin, it’s easy to overlook a blue dome the size and shape of a police car siren sitting in the brown-red loamy soil. But thanks to a number of aggressive small companies, that dome is at the center of rapid change in the Southeast, where entrepreneurs are tackling a drought that’s said to be the worst the region has seen in 100 years. Today, areas of serious drought stretch from Tennessee and the Carolinas to Kentucky and Virginia, Alabama and Georgia.

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