* PUBLIC POST *

"The entire length of the 5 freeway between Sacramento and Los Angeles is lined with orchards and farms - just beautiful to behold and about 8% of the fruit produce for the nation comes from these orchards. Orchards which are now dead and being destroyed because water has been cut off to the orchards and farms in the Central Valley. Yes, there is a drought in California, but the reservoirs are full - the water is just not getting to the farms and orchards, it is going to the fish."

Complete article at: http://noisyroom.net/blog/2009/07/02/californias-present-day-dust-bowl/