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11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought
mrflash818 points out a new study which found that California can recover from its lengthy drought with a mere 11 trillion gallons of water. The volume this water would occupy (roughly 42 cubic kilometers) is half again as large as the biggest water reservoir in the U.S. A team of JPL scientists worked this out through the use of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. From the article:
GRACE data reveal that, since 2011, the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins decreased in volume by four trillion gallons of water each year (15 cubic kilometers). That's more water than California's 38 million residents use each year for domestic and municipal purposes. About two-thirds of the loss is due to depletion of groundwater beneath California's Central Valley. ... New drought maps show groundwater levels across the U.S. Southwest are in the lowest two to 10 percent since 1949.
computers got better and things once thought impossible are now possible, so what's the problem?
Surely there is a technological fix for this?
... they are creating a nice, warm dessert there, something the planet does obviously not have enough of. Finally the decades of knowingly over-using the available water supply are going to pay off.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
that we not get it all at once please.
Begun, the water wars have.
Just watch out for the mutant Kangaroos and the hot girl driving the tank.
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The next thing you'll know is Cohagan will want to have all of the air.
If you set 11000 Libraries of Congress on fire, it would be enough to put the fire out.