Mike Wade

California Farm Water Coalition

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Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition, a Sacramento-based advocacy group that represents members of the state’s agriculture industry

Mike Wade on KCRW

California’s worst drought in more than 30 years is big trouble for the 9th largest agricultural economy in the world.

Can California’s Drought Reform Agricultural Water Use?

California’s worst drought in more than 30 years is big trouble for the 9th largest agricultural economy in the world.

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