In this Tuesday March 31, 2015 photo, almond grower Bob Weimer inspects a low-flow water emitter used to irrigate the trees of his almond orchard near Atwater, Calif. As California cities and towns move to mandatory water cutbacks in the fourth year of extreme drought, the state’s $6.5 billion almond crop has claimed the spotlight as “the poster child of all things bad in water” in the country’s top agriculture state. At 1 gallon per almond, California’s almond crop is now consuming about 10 percent of all the water that Californians are using in the drought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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