California farmers resign themselves to drought – ‘We’re having to go deeper and deeper. They say we’re tapping water millions of years old.’

Desdemona Despair By Rory Carroll 7 March 2015 Fresno, California (the Guardian) – Kim Hammond does not want responsibility for her neighbours’ livelihoods, or for the crops which stretch in all directions as far as the eye can see, or for the earth itself in this corner of California. But these days, her little bungalow office in the yard of her family’s drilling company can feel like Mount Olympus. “It’s just way too stressful, playing God,” said Hammond, a grandmother who co-owns the company and works as its secretary. “Every day we have people on the phone or here in person, pleading.



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