A little over 600 weeks ago, back in 2014, Vance Kennedy told Stanislaus County leaders and concerned citizens that,
“You could solve this problem in a week.”
Kennedy was referring to the “problem” of pumping groundwater on Stanislaus County’s east side, where the last viable aquifer in the San Joaquin Valley was being gouged full of holes to irrigate thousands of acres of new almond orchards…