California Too Broke to Fund Water Transfers Needed in Drought (Jim Downing, SacramentoBee)
May.12, 2009 in
Drought, Water Crisis
(May 12, 2009, Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee)
As another summer of drought approaches, hundreds of thousands of acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland are expected to be fallowed, and much of urban California faces 20 percent water cutbacks.
But in the Sacramento Valley, rice farmers have been busy for weeks spreading water 6 inches deep over [...]
