Farmers Skirt Water Laws in Drought-Stricken CA
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A pipe emerges from dried and cracked earth that used to be the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California.
( Justin Sullivan / Getty )
( Justin Sullivan / Getty )
Produced by Jillian Weinberger