The paradox of production: Surface water supply drives agricultural productivity but not prosperity in California’s San Joaquin Valley

• Vicky Espinoza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vespinoza2@ucla.edu

  Affiliations School of Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3136-2576

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• Joshua H. Viers

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

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