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With California introducing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in 2014, new estimations of subsidence based on water usage plans have revealed that stretches of the California Aqueduct are still at a substantially high risk of subsidence. These projections range from 10-15 feet of subsidence in the most at risk areas. [16]
Eleven months ago, the Los Angeles area was under water. Nearly a foot of rain fell in just a couple of days in early February. ... Why California is ground zero for disasters. Mary Gilbert and ...
The arid areas of the world are requiring more and more water for growing populations and agriculture. In the San Joaquin Valley of the United States, groundwater pumping for crops has gone on for generations. This has resulted in the entire valley sinking an extraordinary amount, as shown in the figure. [4] This has not come without consequences.
Prior to SGMA, groundwater use was under-regulated to a point where many areas of the state faced major depletion, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley and other groundwater basins on the central coast and southern California that have been designated by the State's Department of Water Resources (DWR) as being critically overdrafted. [6]
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
The devastating fires raging across much of Southern California this week have caused extreme damage, leveling some of Los Angeles' historic landmarks. The blaze, which has left five dead and many ...
As several fires spread across Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump urged California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send water down south from Northern California despite some local officials ...
California's limited water supply comes from two main sources: surface water, or water that travels or gathers on the ground, like rivers, streams, and lakes; and groundwater, which is water that is pumped out from the ground. California has also begun producing a small amount of desalinated water, water that was once sea water, but has been ...