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Does a drought-friendly diet make a difference?
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Apr 10, 2015
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Does a drought-friendly diet make a difference?
Kenneth Shackel at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences explains what foods use the most water to produce -- and if it's worth cutting them out of your diet.
A field of almond trees is reflected in an irrigation canal in Firebaugh, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley in 2009.
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Kenneth Shackel at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences explains what foods use the most water to produce -- and if it's worth cutting them out of your diet.

Agriculture uses 80 percent of California's water, which has many of us thinking twice about the food we eat.

Professor Kenneth Shackel, a pomologist at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, explains what foods use the most water to produce -- and if it's worth cutting them out of your diet.