… Just 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, in California’s Cuyama Valley, an exploratory oil drilling project is moving forward on Harvard’s 6,565-acre vineyard. This project is the latest in a series of Harvard’s grabs on natural resources in the region that have worsened a critical drought of groundwater and endangered the area’s many local farmers and ranchers. To repair these harms, the University must, to the extent that it is able, put an end to extractive groundwater pumping and oil drilling in the area and instead invest in building sustainable agricultural practices that prioritize — rather than threaten — a human right to water. … From 2012 to 2018, Harvard purchased thousands of acres of arable land across California. Of these holdings, North Fork Ranch, acquired through the subsidiary company Brodiaea Inc., has been the subject of particular controversy. The land, historically a dry rangeland, was transformed in a water-intensive process by Harvard into the largest vineyard in the valley.