1991 | Agriculture
Agriculture
California has its fifth straight year of drought. Farmers control 83 percent of the water delivered by vast federal, state, and city of Los Angeles dams, aqueducts, and reservoirs; they pay as little as $2.50 per acre foot to irrigate their crops while cutbacks are imposed on angry residents of the booming cities who resent use of precious Sierra Nevada and Colorado River water to grow crops such as rice.