The move marks the fourth time in the last decade that farmers in California didn’t receive water from the Central Valley Project
Officials are preparing for yet another critical water year in California as the state – along with most of the American west – remains mired in drought.
The federal government said Wednesday that it won’t deliver water to farmers in California’s agricultural belt, which produces roughly a quarter of the nation’s food, due to the extreme water shortages that are expected to deepen if the direly dry conditions continue through March.
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