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California Drought: Aquifer Depletion Accelerates

“California's Central Valley — the food system for the entire country — is drawing down groundwater that took hundreds of thousands of years to fill. Glen has said it plainly: groundwater is not a renewable resource. This is what happens when nobody believes that.”Why Glen chose it

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NASA data shows Central Valley aquifers dropping at unprecedented rates Source · nature.com

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NASA data shows Central Valley aquifers dropping at unprecedented rates

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California's Central Valley — the food system for the entire country — is drawing down groundwater that took hundreds of thousands of years to fill. Glen has said it plainly: groundwater is not a renewable resource. This is what happens when nobody believes that.

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