California Drought: website_drought_lkm_029

A young woman leads a child through an empty parking lot off of 7th Street, the main street, April 11, 2014 in Mendota, Calif. The historic drought combined with zero percent water allocation for farmers in the San Joaquin Valley means that many farmers are fallowing fields and many field workers are unemployed. In Mendota, a rural city of about 11,000 people about 35 miles west of Fresno, the jobless rate was at 36 percent in April 2014.

A young woman leads a child through an empty parking lot off of 7th Street, the main street, April 11, 2014 in Mendota, Calif. The historic drought combined with zero percent water allocation for farmers in the San Joaquin Valley means that many farmers are fallowing fields and many field workers are unemployed. In Mendota, a rural city of about 11,000 people about 35 miles west of Fresno, the jobless rate was at 36 percent in April 2014.