California farmers now see drought as rule, not exception
California farmers talk of a new reality – one in which droughts are more of the rule than the exception, and water availability, both above and below ground, becomes less certain...[Third-generation Fresno County farmer George Goshgarian is] taking part in a groundwater recharge project...This winter, if El Niño delivers as expected, water from the Kings River will be applied on Goshgarian’s 62-acre block of almonds to see how well it recharges the aquifer below...Goshgarian realizes there is a risk to his orchard, but that’s what farming is about, he says. “We are in a different paradigm now,” Goshgarian said. “There is a real fear out there about how much water we may have to farm. And that’s why we are doing everything we can think of to keep going.”