20090525 010.tif | Nathan Weyland

Farmworkers Salvador Gonzalez Victorian in the dry irrigation ditch near Mendota, CA that he called home. Victorian and his colleague (not pictured) where living off the grid in May 2009 for lack of work. Average documented unemployment in the region was 36.5 percent, primarily due to lack of water and the subsequent layoffs in farm labor and other industries according to a report by the Fresno County department of public health. May 20, 2009.

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Filename: 20090525 010.tif
Copyright: Nathan Weyland
Image Size: 1800x1200 / 12.4MB; CA; California California's water Central Valley Mendota farm workers firebaugh unemployment water managing scarcity water management rural farmworkers drought california's drought agriculture food production
Contained in galleries: Managing Scarcity II: Agriculture

Farmworkers Salvador Gonzalez Victorian in the dry irrigation ditch near Mendota, CA that he called home. Victorian and his colleague (not pictured) where living off the grid in May 2009 for lack of work. Average documented unemployment in the region was 36.5 percent, primarily due to lack of water and the subsequent layoffs in farm labor and other industries according to a report by the Fresno County department of public health. May 20, 2009.