article_snippet.sent: In this photo taken Friday March 27, 2015, low-flow water emitter sits on some of the dry, cracked ground of farmer Rudy Mussi's  almond orchard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta near Stockton, California .
article_snippet.sent: Resources: farmer Rudy Mussi's   watches farmer Rudy Mussi's   grandson, Lorenzo, 20 months, tries to turn a water valve on farmer Rudy Mussi's   almond orchard  in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (March 2015 file photo)
article_snippet.sent: farmer Rudy Mussi's   farmer Rudy Mussi's   says farmer Rudy Mussi's   has senior water rights, putting farmer Rudy Mussi's   in line ahead of those with lower ranking, or junior, water rights. '
article_snippet.sent: there's surplus water,' farmer Rudy Mussi's   said. '
article_snippet.sent: Mussi, a second-generation Delta farmer, said Central Valley farmers have long known that in dry years Central Valley farmers would get little or no water from state and federal water projects and would need to rely heavily on groundwater .
article_snippet.sent: Mussi, a second-generation Delta farmer whose family grows tomatoes, wheat, corn, grapes and almonds on 4,500 acres west of Stockton, said Central Valley farmers have long known that in dry years Central Valley farmers would get little or no water from state and federal water projects and would need to rely heavily on groundwater. '
article_snippet.sent: All of a sudden Central Valley farmers're trying to turn Central Valley farmers water into a permanent system and ours temporary,' Mussi said. '