The state wants water agencies to speed up the recharging process for aquifers, improve water quality and stop land subsidence. Valley farmers ... worked on the report for two years, said the Central ...

Overpumping of ground water for agriculture has led to land subsidence. The Fresno Bee ... the federal government to build the massive Central Valley Project (CVP) in the 1940s was because Valley ...

It is a difficult spot to find ourselves in. ... We are talking about fallowing land to get through this,” Supervisor Terry ...

“Say we’re flying over the Central Valley,” Famiglietti said ... Tom Farr, a geologist at JPL, has been mapping this subsidence with radar data from a Canadian satellite orbiting some ...

Using ancient hidden waterways to restore California’s aquifers and stop towns from sinking. USGS image of the maximum land subsidence in the Central Valley between 1925 and 1977 due to pumping of ...

Pumping groundwater can cause land to sink, a process known as subsidence. In coastal areas ... This is a major issue in many parts of the world, including California’s Central Valley. Generally ...

Most of the declines were found for wells located west of the Mississippi River, with concentrations in the High Plains, California’s Central Valley ... lead to ground subsidence with economic ...

“There are many in ag that still don’t agree, and don’t like the SGMA laws, but the reality is the overdraft, subsidence, and water quality issues of the San Joaquin Valley are not going to be fixed ...

But local economist Jeffrey Michael, who studies Central Valley employment at the University ... vulnerable because of the continued subsidence and sea level rise. A run-of-the-mill winter storm ...

Human activity is causing subsidence in large areas of the Netherlands. Primary causes are the lowering of the groundwater level to keep our feet dry and the construction of residential areas and ...

One reason Californians begged the federal government to build the massive Central Valley ... up and down the Valley went dry ...