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The University of California, Davis and University of California, Merced released an economic report on the future of water in California, May 13. The report found that projected declines in the state’s water supplies could result in the fallowing of up to 3 million acres of farmland, the loss of 67,000 jobs statewide and lasting damage to California’s agricultural and rural communities if no action is taken.
“We’ve done the math — and the costs of inaction are high economically and environmentally,” said Jay Lund, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis and the report’s primary researcher, in a news release from CA Water for All. …
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