Re:Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the...
by pkulak on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:37PM
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Get ready for the real fun when that aquifer runs out.
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Re:Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the...
by bigbubba on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:03PM
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Not sure why you've been downvoted. For years Central Valley aquifers have been getting drained faster than they refill, it's unsustainable. Particularly in the case of 'fossil aquifers', named because the water in them is ancient and doesn't appreciably replenish on human timescales.
Central Valley agriculture isn't sustainable. The lower their ground waters get, the more they'll try to pull from the rest of the increasingly dry state. Californian politicians have no answer for this because there is none (other than 'scale back or move out') and they probably know it.