No Water For Drought-Hit California Farmers

An NBC News update is not shedding good light on California’s drought situation.  This affects more that California, the nation will feel the impact.  A federal agency said California farmers hit hard by a withering drought will receive no irrigation water this year from a sprawling system of rivers, canals and reservoirs across the parched state.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said Friday there simply isn’t enough water in the Central Valley Project, which provides irrigation and municipal water to wide swaths of California’s midsection. A third of the country’s fruits and vegetables are produced in the region. Read more…..

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