It´s time for California to let some of its thirsty farmland go
(WorldNews Environment)

Some half a million acres of the most productive agricultural region on the planet — California´s San Joaquin Valley — will have to fall fallow, a new report says. There just isn´t enough water. Farmers have been using so much water that wells have run dry and the ground has sunk as much as 28 feet in places. So California passed a law back in 2014 to stop its overdraft of groundwater and gave itself 20 years to figure out how to make it...