Drought-Wracked California Turns to Investors for Help
Money starts to flow to upgrade California’s water infrastructure, but it’s still just a drop in the bucket as the population grows.
Trang Ho
December 17, 2025
Christopher Hurd, owner of Circle G Farms, walks through a grove of pistachio trees on his farm in Firebaugh, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Farmers in California's Central Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region, will get none of the water they requested this year from a federally controlled system because of the drought gripping the state, the U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation said.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Christopher Hurd
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
