California wells run dry as drought depletes groundwater

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

FAIRMEAD, Calif. (AP) — As California’s drought deepens, Elaine Moore’s family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water.

The Central Valley almond growers had two wells go dry this summer. Two of her adult children are now getting water from a new well the family drilled after the old one went dry last year. She’s even supplying water to a neighbor whose well dried up.

“It’s been so dry this last year. We didn’t get much rain. We didn’t get much snowpack,” Moore said, standing next to a dry well on her property in Chowchilla, California. “Everybody’s very careful with what water they’re using. In fact, my granddaughter is emptying the kids’ little pool to flush the toilets.”

Amid a megadrought plaguing the American West, more rural communities are losing access to groundwater as heavy pumping depletes underground aquifers that aren’t being replenished by rain and snow.

https://apnews.com/article/california-droughts-climate-and-environment-e49c8c5c34ead7ef7f83b770082f20bc

[Mr.Bill]

1. If they are growing almonds,

they are not being "careful with what water they are using." I know it's not easy to change an orchard crop, though. I hope we get some rain this year.

[jimfields33]

3. Yeah they need to stop with the almonds. Takes up too much water.

I think the United States gonna have to ban certain water intensive fruits and vegetables that aren’t necessary like almonds and avocados. There are plenty of other options to use. Its either that or we’ll never fix the water problem.

[TheRealNorth]

2. A lot of people in a lot of places are treating aquifers like they are limitless sources of water...

I think there are other reasons besides just politics that the Republicans have targeted the Great Lakes states over the past 20 years.

[LiberalFighter]

4. The population continues to increase.

[quaint]

5. It doesn't help our water needs, but California population is decreasing.

California lost 117,552 residents last year, driven largely by the Covid death toll and a sharp drop in foreign immigration. This followed a slightly bigger decline in 2020, when the state lost 182,083 residents — the first time in more than a century that California got smaller.

From May 4, 2022 Google 'cause no NYT access