California, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions, is now a wasteland.
California was once thought to be a good place to farm.
But it didn't start out as a place for farming.
Water for agriculture has been secured by man-made works such as drawing water channels from rivers on the other side of the mountains and pumping up groundwater.
2. And now this self-inflicted monoculture has hit California in the form of an unprecedented drought.
Here on the plains of California, we used to think of the granite mountains as an otherworldly refuge.
But no longer is there such a divide.
The Sierra Nevada, with its countless dead pine trees, all burned to ashes by wildfire, is only a stone's throw from us.
The harshest summer in the San Joaquin Valley is finally over.
Since June, we have had 67 days with temperatures above 38 degrees.
That's a new record. California's drought looks set to continue.
Eight of the last ten years have been particularly drought-prone.
The drought and desertification caused by environmental degradation should increase rapidly in Asia, especially in northern China.
Prof.PhD.& Dr. Kazusho Kamuro, Physicist, California Institute of Technology, USA
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