<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10757" dir="ltr"><a href="https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10830">https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/</a></div><h1 style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-size: 28px; line-height: 33px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10790"><a href="https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10791">Various: almond acreage, leasing a water right, AP exam,</a></h1><div style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10792"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10793">The <a href="https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Fruits_and_Nuts/201605almac.pdf" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; outline-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10794">2015 California Almond Acreage Report</a> is out. Last year, while you were carrying your warm-up water out to the rose bushes, growers planted another sixty thousand acres of almonds.</div><blockquote style="border-width: 1px 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10795"><div style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10796">California’s 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of 1,050,000.</div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10797"><font color="#9d1811" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_11052">This acreage, planted in Drought Year Four, commits about 180,000 AF/year to those trees, a constant burden on groundwater basins and our political system for every one of the next twenty-five years</font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_11053">. Had the Brown administration banned new permanent crops in basins with declining groundwater levels, that demand might be in annual crops, flexible in times of high climate variability.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10798"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10799"></div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10768"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462291663895_10800"><br></div></div></div></body></html>