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Such sentiments are increasingly common in California. From the rich farmlands that yield half the nation's fruits and vegetables to the usually snow-drenched Sierra Nevadas to the lush gardens of Bel Air, Californians are grappling with the state's worst-ever drought, now entering its fifth year. Farmers, who contribute $17.6 billion to California's $735 billion-a-year economy, last week absorbed a double blow. The state Department of Water Resources, which normally supplies water to major farming areas in the fecund San Joaquin Valley, suspended all agricultural deliveries of the water it controls. Meanwhile the Federal...
...distinction provided little solace to farmers, who consume 85% of the state's water and are likely to take the biggest economic hit from the drought. With spring planting only weeks away, agricultural analysts predict a grim harvest: as many as 1.5 million acres left unfarmed, $642 million in net losses and layoffs of thousands of farm workers. "This is the worst drought most of us can remember," says Bob Vice, president of the 85,000-member California Farm Bureau Federation. "You can't raise crops unless you have tools, and water is the most important tool...
...California's nonfarm economy, the drought's long-term effects will probably be more important than the immediate ones. "We will survive the drought," says Gary Burke, president of the Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group. "But what effect will the drought have on companies' plans to expand and new businesses' decisions to locate in Santa Clara...
...Golden State turns brown, residents wonder how long the drought will last. No one can tell them. Some meteorologists ask whether the state is undergoing a permanent climatic change, but most point out that multiyear droughts have occurred often over the centuries. The 1928-34 drought lasted even longer than this one. Astrologers, not always disdained in California, say that with Saturn moving toward Aquarius, the skies will begin to open. Drenching rains lashed Northern California last week but probably sank straight into cracked ground rather than running into rivers and lakes. Relief almost certainly will not come soon. Even...
...checking line of Tim Burke-Steve Flomenhoft-Scott Barringer--which revived from a scoring drought to scrap for four goals this weekend--opened the scoring when Burke skated uncontested into the crease and shoved the puck past Princeton goalkeeper Mark Salsbury 6:22 into the opening period for what proved to be the game-winner...