California Drought: website_drought_lkm_030

Unemployed field worker Maria Fajardo, 51, pictured outside of her apartment complex April 14, 2014 in Mendota, Calif. Fajardo moved to Mendota from Mexico eight years ago and has been having trouble finding work this year. 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.

Unemployed field worker Maria Fajardo, 51, pictured outside of her apartment complex April 14, 2014 in Mendota, Calif. Fajardo moved to Mendota from Mexico eight years ago and has been having trouble finding work this year. 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.