Montreal Gazette, Canada (July 29, 2014) - Endless fields of lush orchards and verdant crops line the road. Concrete canals brim with still water. Fruit and vegetables over-flow roadside produce stands. It’s hard to believe that California is experiencing its worst drought on record. Jay Lund, director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences says that California’s diverse environment is what makes the state attractive to the 95 per cent of the people not engaged in agriculture. “How much less is the attraction of California that has basically denuded itself of a basic eco-system,” he asks. “It is hard to quantify that but it is nevertheless quite important.”