<p><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Three generations of Al Kalin’s family have worked their 2,000 acres of carrots and sugar beets, wheat and alfalfa for almost a century in the Imperial Valley, a scorching swath of Southern California desert that was unfit for farming until water from the Colorado River was diverted here&nbsp;in 1901. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/science/earth/24water.html?_r=1&amp;ref=water" title="Empty Fields Fill Urban Basins and Farmers’ Pockets">More</a> (Source: The New York Times)</span></p>