AdvertisementCalifornia Farmers Gulp Most Of State's Water, But Say They've Cut BackApril 07, 2015Kirk SieglerfacebookEmailFields of carrots are watered March 29, 2015, in Kern County, Calif. Subsidized water flowing in federal and state canals down from the wet north to the arid south helped turn the dry, flat plain of the San Joaquin Valley into one of the world's most important food-growing regions. (AFP/Getty Images)