To beat drought, farmers drill record number of wells in San Joaquin Valley
Growers “dug about 2,500 wells in the San Joaquin Valley last year alone, the highest number on record,” says the Sacramento Bee, describing “a kind of groundwater arms race” to offset the greatly curtailed amounts of irrigation water from state and federal water projects. As the agricultural wells go deeper, an estimated 30 percent of… » Read More
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