The state auditor found that more than one million Californians don't have access to reliable drinking water this is in the fourth largest economy in the world. The first time I went to the central valley to start talking to people about the drought was last summer and I met a water manager in a very small town called Woodville. He said these lands were now covered with thickets thick as you could imagine lined in perfect rows with drip irrigation literally into the horizon it felt like of nut trees then that's where this extraordinary encapsulation of our story really came out.
Despite the rain-soaked year California has had, the ongoing issues of drought and limited water remain. Bloomberg reporters Peter Waldman, Mark Chediak, and Sinduja Rangarajan join this episode to talk about how farms that grow lucrative cash crops like almonds and pistachios are digging deeper and deeper wells to tap the state’s dwindling groundwater supply–leaving people in some communities with less to drink.
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