California Drought

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While much of the country is under snow California is suffering an unprecedented drought. California's central valley is taking the biggest hit. Allocations of irrigation water have been slashed -- pastures are brown when they should be their greenest -- fields are fallow -- orchards are being abandoned -- cattle herds culled. All this portends serious suffering for all the workers dependent upon agriculture -- and these are people who are far from rich even in the best of times.

Here's a good article on the situation.

http://www.alternet.org/environment...ng-farmers?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

 

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