Limits on water use are shaking up California agriculture
California’s agricultural empire is facing a shakeup, as a state law comes into effect that will limit many farmers’ access to water. The seven-year-old law is supposed to stop the over-pumping from depleted aquifers, and some farmers — the largest users of that water — concede the limits are overdue. … The limits on that water use will force many farmers to scrap practices that relied on unfettered access to that shrinking underground reservoir.
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