Of watermelons

Since childhood, Ned has had a love/hate relationship with the watermelon. He sold them as a boy at something like 35 cents each. He even ate them regularly until adulthood, when he decided to shuck off all things Southern. But, since Ned has retained an open mind, he would like to recommend watermelons to his followers looking for nutritious food, with a few caveats:
First, and foremost, Ned advises buying local and organic: local is important here as the transport cost is environmentally high.
Second, Ned advises to eat the watermelon down to the skin as nearly as possible, since the rind contains much that is good for you.
Third, Ned advises to buy watermelons from areas that don't need intense summer irrigation, and this would exclude the southern Great Valley and Mojave Desert of California. Here, immense quantities of water are used to grow mainly surplus crops, and this is water from the Sierra rivers where the fish need it more than the cotton.
So Ned suggests his southern and eastern friends find local watermelon, organic or 'no spray', and eat it UP. Both yellow and red melons are chock full of nutrition.