California Is Pumping So Much Groundwater That the Land Is Sinking

The Mad Max plotplaying out in Californiais make all sorts of problems , not least for farmers , who have turned to pumping groundwater to irrigate crops . According to NASA , all that pumping is having an effect : in some places , the flat coat is sink by two inch per month .

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Subsidence — the expert Son for sinking ground — has been go on for decades in California , but the charge per unit of recent sinking feeling is particularly alarming . Groundwater hold up the land , so depleting that groundwater quicker — as has been happening during the drought — makes the ground subside faster . Land in the Tulare basin sank 13 inches in the last eight months , and some areas near the California Aqueduct were fall at two inches a calendar month during parts of 2014 .

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That ’s a special problem for base — faster settling increase the stress ( and risk of damage ) to bridge deck , roads , pipelines — basically anything that lie along the ground and is n’t built like a Slinky .

In reply to NASA ’s account , the California Department of Water Resources is press people to pump less groundwater ( because that approach has worked so well thus far ! ) , and is also announcing a $ 10 million program to help county with accented groundwater basin fight back . lease ’s hope something work before California just sinks into the ocean .

[ Department of Water Resources ]

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