New York Times (April 20, 2014) — A sharp increase in berries, nits and other lucrative crops that require more water is straining California's water suuply in this third straight year of extremely dry conditions. "While we may have more water than we did in other droughts, it has to stretch further,” said Jay Lund, an engineering professor specializing in water resources and environmental planning and management at the University of California, Davis. He said this drought will rank somewhere between the third- to the sixth-worst on record.