A 4 year long drought, near Bakersfield in the Central Valley, California, USA, has led farmers desperate for irrigation water to drill ever deeper wells to access increasingly scarce water. The whole of California is in a catastrophic drought with $2 Billion annually lost from the agricultural sector, with many workers laid off. One third of children in California currently go to bed hungry. Here a water tower stores ever diminishing water supplies.
A 4 year long drought, near Bakersfield in the Central Valley, California, USA, has led farmers desperate for irrigation water to drill ever deeper wells to access increasingly scarce water. The whole of California is in a catastrophic drought with $2 Billion annually lost from the agricultural sector, with many workers laid off. One third of children in California currently go to bed hungry. Here a water tower stores ever diminishing water supplies.
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