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Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder abyss

2015-11-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads. This is the hidden disaster of Californias drought. So much water has been pumped out of the ground that vast areas of the Central Valley are sinking, destroying millions of dollars in infrastructure in the gradual collapse. Four years of...

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