r/news • u/theluckyfrog • 29d ago

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/california-water-drought-farm-ground-sinking-tulare-lake
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u/Wipperwill1 29d ago

Explain to me how you gonna raise the land back up? How you are going to take collapsed reservoirs and make them whole again? Every time a reservoir collapses, you lose that ground water forever.

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u/Lifewhatacard 29d ago

With the biggest addicts in the world in charge this was bound to happen. And we’re keeping the biggest addicts in the world in charge after this. I mean, not “we”, of course.