Officials want to focus on entire river basins when making policy, rather than individual towns or cities.

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And shale basins have been identified on six continents, making fracking a truly global issue.

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These days, authentic stone basins are scarcer than bustles, so trough- planting zealots have taken to making their own equally porous (and much lighter) containers out of hypertufa a mixture of portland cement, peat moss, perlite and fibermesh.

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