article_snippet.sent: Almond growers in California are at the centre of a row over water usage during one of the worst droughts in decades.
article_snippet.sent: The state, which supplies more than three-quarters of the world's $4.93billion(£3.3bn) almond market, is in The state, which supplies more than three-quarters of the world's $4.93billion(£3.3bn) almond market .
article_snippet.sent: This has also seen local residents attack the almond industry, after This was revealed that several companies have been 'taking advantage of poor government oversight to deplete mountain streams and watersheds,' The Guardian reports.
article_snippet.sent: Despite the ongoing drought,  almond growers, who require a gallon of water to produce a single nut, are still planting trees.
article_snippet.sent: Still going: Almond growers in California are at the centre of a row over water usage during one of the worst droughts in decades .
article_snippet.sent: But in California, there is growing anger that while most people are facing water rations, the almond industry has been left to expand the almond industry orchards and guzzle all the water the almond industry wants.
article_snippet.sent: Tom Stokely, of the California Water Impact Network, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'There has been a huge expansion of almonds.
article_snippet.sent: As we speak, there are yet more almond orchards being planted.
article_snippet.sent: But the almond industry insists the almond industry needs the resources.
highlights_snippet.sent: California supplies more than three-quarters of world's almond market .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Growers - who need a gallon of water to make a nut - are still planting trees .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Anger that the almond industry has been left to expand the almond industry orchards .