Monthly Archives: April 2015

Jobs per drop irrigating California crops

Posted on April 28, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Josué Medellín-Azuara, Jay Lund and Richard Howitt Some of the most popular drought stories lately have been on the amount of what water needed to produce food from California, as a consumer sees it — a single almond, a head of … Continue reading →

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Food prices and the California drought

Posted on April 22, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Daniel A. Sumner California’s drought has been tough on farms and especially painful for farm workers in the Central Valley. But consumers of California-produced food have been spared large price increases. Despite the severity of the drought and California’s … Continue reading →

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Dollars and drops per California crop

Posted on April 14, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Josué Medellín-Azuara and Jay Lund When it comes to water, California’s irrigated agriculture is always under the public magnifying glass because it is the largest managed water use in the state and the economic base for many rural areas. … Continue reading →

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Making every drop count in drought – and deluge

Posted on April 9, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Joshua Viers and Graham Fogg A little publicized but highly curious part of the emergency drought legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last month advances hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up and replace aging levees in flood … Continue reading →

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Exotic animals deployed as Delta ‘weed whackers’

Posted on April 1, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Nestle J. Frobish Visitors to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are doing double takes lately as they encounter some newly introduced “biological controls” to keep a fast-spreading waterweed from damaging boat propellers and choking off waterways. Working with state water … Continue reading →

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