San Jose Mercury News (July 15,2014) — In the most comprehensive look yet at the impact of the worst California drought in decades on the state's vital agriculture industry, a new study found that it has cost the state $2.2 billion, primarily in lost farm revenue and wages. The drought also has put more than 17,100 seasonal and part-time agricultural workers out of jobs, according to a study released by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, leading to pockets of extreme poverty and despair in the produce baskets of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties. The report found that California is managing the drought, the state's third worst on record, by heavily relying on the additional pumping of underground water.