In the short-term, the drought could cause California to lose some of the 1 million jobs Brown says he added since 2010 to help bring the state back from its worst recession since the 1930s.
“Given direct and indirect impact, you could see a loss of 37,600 jobs, about 24,000 of those from agriculture,” said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/california-drought-impact-seen-spreading-from-fires-to-food-cost.html
Also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/us/california-seeing-brown-where-green-used-to-be.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1
