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California's Drought Could Upend America's Entire Food System

2015-05-05 22:21:02| Agriculture - Topix.net

On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, beige grass stretching out across an area that should have been covered with five feet of snow. The Sierra's snowpack - the frozen well that feeds California's reservoirs and supplies a third of its water - was just eight percent of its yearly average.

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