Water rush in California

California does not replay the Gold Rush but improvises for unprecedented water rush.

Drought continues to affect California and farmers strive to provide water for their crops. Producers of almonds are the most affected by water shortages because their orchards, like other permanent crops require more water than annual crops.

The almond producers continue to receive water distributed at the expense of some city dwellers, but ahead of the volumes used, below their needs, some improvised. Some have made ??more efficient micro-irrigation, others started to drill to reach groundwater, and others have managed to convey sewage from nearby cities.

The almond is the first agricultural export of state of California. Demand rising steadily for years led farmers to plant hundreds of thousands of hectares of new trees. This race to the expansion of orchards is now denounced by  some American ecologists who accuse almond producers to dry even further the already low water supplies in California.

source : western farm press, Fresno Bee, Slate