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Confronting California’s Water Crisis

State officials should protect water as a public resource and rein in corporate water abusers to deal with its increasingly uncertain water future, a new report says.

By Liza Gross

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images
Christine Gemperle shells an almond freshly picked from a tree in her grove in Ceres. Credit: Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Out in the Fields, Contemplating Humanity and a Parched Almond Farm

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An almond orchard in Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley, California Almond Orchard, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Credit:Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In California, a Warming Climate Will Help a Voracious Pest—and Hurt the State’s Almonds, Walnuts and Pistachios

By Liza Gross

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