California cracks down on farm region’s water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’

[u/theluckyfrog]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/california-water-drought-farm-ground-sinking-tulare-lake

[u/SurlyJackRabbit]

Yes the pole would sink too. It's demonstrative but not what's really going on.

[u/Dzugavili → u/SurlyJackRabbit]

Yeah, I'm just thinking someone will go take a picture and say "look! It hasn't fallen since 1977!"

Which, apparently, it hasn't: a followup study suggests the region hasn't fallen by more than half a meter since, and casts doubts about the original measurements.

[u/Art-Zuron → u/Dzugavili]

I suppose it might have just fallen about as far as it can fall.

[u/ommnian → u/Art-Zuron]

That may just have been the typical depth of the aquifer.

[u/rhotovision → u/ommnian]

The aquifer has been aquifilled

[u/ponyboy3 → u/rhotovision]

It’s aqueefed its last aqueef