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Can California’s Agriculture Survive Extreme Drought? Should It?

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Is the Future of Agriculture Going to Be Drier?

Climate models are not clear for california on whether, on average, it's going to be drier. Ellen hannick: Unless we are able to capture that water some other way, like in the ground, and store it in the ground,. But a we dona, at a minimum, in the san joaquin valley, folks are going to have to lose about ten % of the acreage just to bring their ground water basins into balance.

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