CALIFORNIA FACES DROUGHT AS WATER SHORTAGE LOOMS
California wells are running dry: "People are still going to lose access to drinking water. And we don’t really have a new plan for addressing that" says an official of water resources
During the last drought, dry wells were largely in the San Joaquin Valley, but Northern California is being hit hard this time.
Well outages are creeping north through the Sacramento Valley, where Glenn, Tehama and Colusa residents reported more than 250 well outages to county officials by mid August.
This is already a bit more than were reported during the last drought. Almost half of measurements showed groundwater levels dropped last year compared to the previous three years.
The scope is much larger than I think anything we heard about before,” said Joe Karkoski of the State Water Resources Control Board. California enacted a groundwater law seven years ago. But wells are still drying up and it’s spreading.
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