Cotton growing in California's Central Valley, which is in the grip of a four year long drought. The catastrophic drought means

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Cotton growing in California's Central Valley, which is in the grip of a four year long drought. The catastrophic drought means that no crops will grow without increasingly scarce irrigation water. Many areas of farmland have been abandoned due to the drought. $2 billion has been wiped off the agricultural sector annually by the drought.

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