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Fresno, Calif.'s Groundwater is Dangerously Low

2013-09-07 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: For decades, this city in California's agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew. But eventually, the water table dropped by more than 100 feet, causing some of Fresno's wells to cave in and others to slow to a trickle. The cost of replacing those wells and extracting groundwater ballooned by 400 percent. "We became the largest energy demand in the region - $11 million a year for electricity...

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