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National Geographic: Extensive groundwater pumping is causing a huge swath of central California to sink, in some spots at an alarming rate, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
With California in the throes of a major drought and demand for groundwater rising, officials and landowners are racing to respond to the process known as subsidence. Some areas of the San Joaquin Valley, the backbone of California's vast agricultural industry, are subsiding at the fastest rates ever measured, said Michelle Sneed, a U.S. Geological......
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In California, Demand for Groundwater Causing Huge Swaths of Land to Sink
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 25th, 2014
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