In a surprising new study, Stanford researchers have found that drought-ravaged California is sitting on top of a vast and previously unrecognized water resource, in the form of deep groundwater, residing at depths between 1,000 and nearly 10,000 feet below the surface of the state’s always thirsty Central Valley.
[...] new research could prove controversial among scientists trying to interpret what it means for a state that has battled over water, and its distribution, going back many decades.
— washingtonpost.com
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Wonderful! Can we go back now to watering our sprawling lawns daily?
This is like scientists version of looking for your hat and then finding it on your head.
Now there can be even more subsidence.
Great, how long before we suck it dry?
E_I, exactly my concern. Hopefully they won't displace water under any dams...
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