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California Losing Groundwater Rapidly
17 hours ago ago from The San Francisco 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in San Francisco, CA
KQED's Climate Watch Tue Dec 15 12:00:00 UTC 2009 Groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley and the San Joaquin Basin in particular is raising some eyebrows in the research community. about: Agriculture American Geophysical Union Central Valley Copenhagen Environment groundwater Jay Famiglietti Lake Mead Lauren Sommer Michael Watkins NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration San Francisco Sommer Water water supply ...
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18 hours ago ago from Ward 2 Guelph
Guelph City Council approved the 2010 operating budgets for water and wastewater services at $39,634,800. Water and wastewater rates will increase by ten per cent next year, and will have an average impact of sixty-seven dollars per household. SUMMARY OF CHANGES WATER/WASTEWATER RATES AND BUDGETS Water Rate Increase per m3$0.10 Water Rate per m3$1.07 Water Basic Charge increase (daily) $0.02 Water Basic Charge (daily) $0.19 ...
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22 hours ago ago from Aquafornia
From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: PASADENA, Calif. – New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California's primary agricultural region the Central Valley and its major mountain water source the Sierra Nevadas have lost nearly enough water combined to fill Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir. The findings, based on data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...
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19 hours ago ago from NASA International Space Station Shuttle Mission Science Technology Google Earth Mars Moon
New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California's primary agricultural region -- the Central Valley -- and its major mountain water source -- the Sierra Nevadas -- have lost nearly enough water combined to fill Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir. The findings, based on data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( Grace ), reflect California's extended drought and ...
Related contentQuinn on Groundwater and the Peripheral Canal
2 hours ago ago from Aguanomics
Tim Quinn spoke at Berkeley on Tuesday evening [video here in a few weeks...] Most of his talk centered on the Peripheral Canal, and he took questions from the audience. Basically, he (and ACWA , the organization he heads) support the Peripheral Canal because it will protect the status quo (water exports to ag/urban interests in SoCal) while "doing something" about the Delta's deteriorating ecology. (I cannot find ACWA's "official ...
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Satellites eye dwindling water in central Calif.
4 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Satellites eye dwindling water in central Calif. FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- New data from satellites show the vast underground pools feeding faucets and irrigation hoses across California are running low, a worrisome trend federal scientists largely attribute to aggressive agricultural pumping. The measurements show the amount of water lost in the two main Central Valley river basins within the past six years could almost fill the nation's ...
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