Environmental

NASA: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink

Total subsidence in California's San Joaquin Valley for the period May 3, 2014 to Jan. 22, 2015Total subsidence in California’s San Joaquin Valley for the period May 3, 2014 to Jan. 22, 2015, as measured by Canada’s Radarsat-2 satellite. Two large subsidence bowls are evident, centered on Corcoran and south of El Nido.  Credits: Canadian Space Agency/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. As Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought, the California Department of Water Resources today released a new NASA report showing land in the San Joaquin Valley…

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