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  • Old tree at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
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  • Old tree at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
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  • Old tree at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
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  • Old tree at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
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  • Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA
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  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
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  • Rain water empties from Storm Pipes into Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Ballona Creek is designed to discharge to Santa Monica Bay approximately 71,400 cubic feet per second from a 50-year frequency storm event. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_153.jpg
  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_150.jpg
  • Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_129.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_025.jpg
  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_013.jpg
  • Rainwater collects by side of the road and Almond orchard during a sever drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Heavy rains flow down streets into Street Gutters and Storm Drains and eventually Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_081.jpg
  • Groundwater well with cracked earth. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_078.jpg
  • Water well being drilling next to oil well and fracking site in almond orchard. Kern County, located over the Monterey Shale, has seen a dramatic increase in oil drilling and hydraulic fracking in recent years. San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains during Thunderstorm, Highway 395 near Lone Pine, Owens Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
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  • Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA
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  • Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA
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  • Fallow crop field outside of Fresno. Three years of severe drought has led to a dramtic increase in unplanted farmland. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_016.jpg
  • Deer Creek Recharge and Wildlife Project was constructed originally as a recharge facility but was converted for habitat enhancement as well. Once host to over 1,000 bird types, after three years of severe drought, it is completely dry, the trees are dying and the birds have left. Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Groundwater well and standpipe for crop irrigation. Porterville, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_144.jpg
  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_132.jpg
  • Rain water empties from Storm Pipes into Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Ballona Creek is designed to discharge to Santa Monica Bay approximately 71,400 cubic feet per second from a 50-year frequency storm event. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_155.jpg
  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Rod Cardella stand in fron of the California Aqueduct next to his farm. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • The California Aqueduct is a 444 mile canal, part of the California State Water Project, that carries water from Northern California to Southern California, San Joaquin Valley, Mendota, Fresno County California, USA
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  • Cracked earth in front of grape vineyard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Tractor hoeing crop field for planting. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Drill bit in front of water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_184.jpg
  • Donna Johnson, a 72 year old resident of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, has been delivering water on an almost daily basis to many of her fellow townsfolk who had run out of water. Last June many of the towns wells started to run dry as a result of the severe drought conditions in the area. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_119.jpg
  • Donna Johnson, a 72 year old resident of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, has been delivering water on an almost daily basis to many of her fellow townsfolk who had run out of water. Last June many of the towns wells started to run dry as a result of the severe drought conditions in the area. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_112.jpg
  • Donna Johnson, a 72 year old resident of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, has been delivering water on an almost daily basis to many of her fellow townsfolk who had run out of water. Last June many of the towns wells started to run dry as a result of the severe drought conditions in the area. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_081.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2654.jpg
  • Cracked and dry earth next to fallow crop field. Fresno County, San Joachin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_127.jpg
  • Almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_098.jpg
  • Almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_097.jpg
  • Fallow crop field outside of Fresno. Three years of severe drought has led to a dramtic increase in unplanted farmland. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_042.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_034.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_031.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_020.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_017.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_013.jpg
  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_011.jpg
  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Deer Creek Recharge and Wildlife Project was constructed originally as a recharge facility but was converted for habitat enhancement as well. Once host to over 1,000 bird types, after three years of severe drought, it is completely dry, the trees are dying and the birds have left. Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_256.jpg
  • A Snowy Egret walks amongst garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2649.jpg
  • Ballona Creek during Rain Storm and Normal Water Flow. Heavy rains can bring a dramatic rise to the water level in a short period of time. Ballona Creek is a nine-mile long flood protection channel that drains the Los Angeles basin. Ballona Creek is designed to discharge to Santa Monica Bay approximately 71,400 cubic feet per second from a 50-year frequency storm event. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    CA16846.jpg
  • Rain water empties from Storm Pipes into Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Ballona Creek is designed to discharge to Santa Monica Bay approximately 71,400 cubic feet per second from a 50-year frequency storm event. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    CA16847.jpg
  • Heavy rains flow down streets into Street Gutters and Storm Drains and eventually Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    CA16828.jpg
  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_142.jpg
  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_082.jpg
  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_079.jpg
  • Worker shoveling a crop field. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Tractor hoeing crop field for planting. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Political sign for Families Protecting the Valley activist group. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • No oilfield traffic sign next to groundwater well with oil well pumpjack and cotton field in background. Kern County, located over the Monterey Shale, has seen a dramatic increase in oil drilling and hydraulic fracking in recent years. San Joachin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_146.jpg
  • Water well being drilling next to oil well and fracking site in almond orchard. Kern County, located over the Monterey Shale, has seen a dramatic increase in oil drilling and hydraulic fracking in recent years. San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_075.jpg
  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_242.jpg
  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_212.jpg
  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_193.jpg
  • Donna Johnson, a 72 year old resident of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, has been delivering water on an almost daily basis to many of her fellow townsfolk who had run out of water. Last June many of the towns wells started to run dry as a result of the severe drought conditions in the area. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_106.jpg
  • Donna Johnson, a 72 year old resident of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, has been delivering water on an almost daily basis to many of her fellow townsfolk who had run out of water. Last June many of the towns wells started to run dry as a result of the severe drought conditions in the area. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_096.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2656.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2612.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2609.jpg
  • The Friant-Kern Canal is an irrigation canal and part of the Central Valley Project aqueduct. Delano, Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_213.jpg
  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_012.jpg
  • Farmers are leaving more fields fallow after three years of severe drought. Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_002.jpg
  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought.  Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_077.jpg
  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought.  Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_075.jpg
  • Lake Success is a reservoir and dam along the Tule River and provides water to nearby Porterville and East Porterville, small towns at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, and is at extremely low levels as a result of three years of severe drought.  Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_066.jpg
  • A Snowy Egret walks amongst garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2642.jpg
  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_159.jpg
  • Irrigation ditch running next to vineyard and almond orchard. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_154.jpg
  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_100.jpg
  • Groundwater well pumping into holding pond on Cardello Winery. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_080.jpg
  • Millerton Lake and Friant Dam, just north of Fresno and part of the Central Valley Project, is a reservoir that stores water for irrigation in the San Joachin Valley and has a capacity of 520,000 acre feet. Like many other major reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley, three years of severe drought have dropped water levels dramatically. Fresno County, California, USA
    US_CA_83_006.jpg
  • The Friant-Kern Canal is an irrigation canal and part of the Central Valley Project aqueduct. Delano, Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_82_208.jpg
  • Drill bit in front of water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_232.jpg
  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_207.jpg
  • Water well being drilled in Almond orchard. After three years of severe drought and groundwater depletion, a record number of well drilling permits have been granted, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_183.jpg
  • The local fire department in East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, provides non potable water for local residents who have run out of water after their wells ran dry. While not suitable for drinking, it can be used for washing, cleaning and irrigation. Many wells started running dry in the Spring of 2014 as a result of three years of severe drought. Tulare County, California, USA
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  • A Trailer park resident in East Porterville. Like many other residents of East Porterville, a small town at the eastern edge of the Central Valley, his well ran dry and now depends on bottled water being delivered by Donna Johnson who since last June has been distributing water to her neighbors in need. Tulare County, California, USA
    US_CA_81_101.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2620.jpg
  • Department of Public Works workers clean up garbage that accumulates in Trash Net boom at the mouth of the Ballona Creek after first rainfall of the year. Urban runoff from heavy rains carries an assortment of styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and bags and other trash that has built up on streets and catch basins since the last rains into the Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. While the boom catches some of this trash, smaller particles and many other pollutants still empty into the Santa Monica Bay and Pacific Ocean. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    US_CA_45_2610.jpg
  • Fallow crop fields with dusty road. Rod Cardella runs Cardella Winery, a family business since 1969, which grows almonds, broccoli and other crops as well as grapes. With the high price of water in recent years, Rod has turned to technology and drip irrigation to lower water usage and like many other farmers is planting high value crops such as almonds. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_132.jpg
  • Fallow crop field outside of Fresno. Three years of severe drought has led to a dramtic increase in unplanted farmland. Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_83_044.jpg
  • Deer Creek Recharge and Wildlife Project was constructed originally as a recharge facility but was converted for habitat enhancement as well. Once host to over 1,000 bird types, after three years of severe drought, it is completely dry, the trees are dying and the birds have left. Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_261.jpg
  • Groundwater well and standpipe for crop irrigation. Porterville, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
    US_CA_81_165.jpg
  • Ballona Creek rises dramatically after rainfall, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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