Groundwater overuse has permanently reduced San Joaquin Valley's water storage ability

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 07:02 in Earth & Climate

Decades of over-pumping groundwater have irreversibly altered clay layers in parts of California's Central Valley, causing the ground to sink and permanently reducing its capacity to store water, a new satellite remote sensing study shows.

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