AdvertisementAs Rains Soak California, Farmers Test How To Store Water UndergroundJanuary 12, 2017Dan CharlesfacebookEmailHelen Dahlke, a scientist from the University of California, Davis, stands in an almond orchard outside Modesto that's being deliberately flooded. This experiment is examining how flooding farmland in the winter can help replenish the state's depleted aquifers. (Joe Proudman / Courtesy of UC Davis)