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Take Two

Drought lessons: Teaching kids conservation

By Take Two Staff
Published Feb 7, 2014
Mud cracks in a drying creek bed.
Mud cracks in a drying creek bed.
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Drought lessons: Teaching kids conservation

So how to cope with a drought like this one?

Of course, one of the best ways is to conserve water.

And one of the best ways to get people to conserve -- teach them when they're young.

Very young.

For more on why and how to do that, we're joined by KPCC's education reporter Mary Plummer.