Farmer David Schwabauer, a fourth-generation avocado and lemon grower, checks …

AP FILE PHOTO, JUNE 3 | published: June 17, 2013

Farmer David Schwabauer, a fourth-generation avocado and lemon grower, checks an irrigation sprinkler in Moorpark, Calif. The Schwabauer family has been considering allowing energy companies to drill new exploratory wells in their orchards, but the trees in Moorpark rely on irrigation supplies drawn from a depleted aquifer, and the county is in a drought.