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Christopher Hurd, owner of Circle G Farms, checks the drip irrigation line in a grove of almond trees on his farm in Firebaugh, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Farmers in California's Central Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region, will get none of the water they requested this year from a federally controlled system because of the drought gripping the state, the U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation said. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Christopher Hurd, owner of Circle G Farms, checks the drip irrigation line in a grove of almond trees on his farm in Firebaugh, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Farmers in California's Central Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region, will get none of the water they requested this year from a federally controlled system because of the drought gripping the state, the U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation said. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images