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California farmers dig deeper as wells run dry
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Fri, Apr 17, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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NEAR California's Success Lake, more than 1,000 water wells have failed. Farmers are spending US$750,000 to drill 1,800 feet (about 550 metres) down to keep fields from going fallow. Makeshift showers have sprouted near the church parking lot.
"The conditions are like a third-world country," said Andrew Lockman at the Office of Emergency Services in Tulare County, in the heart of the state's agricultural Central Valley about 282 km north of Los Angeles.
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