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Take Two

As water prices soar, some profit from state's drought

By Take Two Staff
Published Jul 14, 2014
Dried and cracked earth is visible on an unplanted field at a farm on April 29, 2014 near Mendota, California. As the California drought continues, Central California farmers are hiring well drillers to seek water underground for their crops after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation stopped providing Central Valley farmers with any water from the federally run system of reservoirs and canals fed by mountain runoff.
Dried and cracked earth is visible on an unplanted field at a farm on April 29, 2014 near Mendota, California.
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The drought is putting a lot of pressure on farmers in California. But for those who have water, it can be a windfall.

Water prices are soaring, and some growers are pumping out their groundwater and selling it. Some call it "groundwater mining," and fights are breaking out over concerns it might threaten California's aquifers, which are already stressed.

For The California Report, Lauren Sommer has the story.