Saturday, 14 March 2015

California is drilling for water that fell to Earth 20,000 years ago

California is drilling for water that fell to Earth 20,000 years ago


This story was originally published by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By now, the impacts of California's unchecked groundwater pumping are well-known: the dropping water levels, dried-up wells and slowly sinking farmland in parts of the Central Valley. But another consequence gets less attention, one measured not by acre-feet or gallons-per-minute but the long march of time.

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