[env-trinity] Almond acreage up 6% in 2015, 180, 000 AF/year for 25 years

[Tom Stokely]

https://onthepublicrecord.org/2016/04/27/various-almond-acreage-leasing-a-water-right-ap-exam/
Various: almond acreage, leasing a water right, AP exam,
The 2015 California Almond Acreage Report 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.
California’s 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of 1,050,000.
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.  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.

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