{"id":1336,"date":"2013-09-09T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:45:23","slug":"dry-wells-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/2013\/09\/09\/dry-wells-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"the (dry) wells of CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groundwater depletion is a growing problem, perhaps nowhere more acutely than in the breadbasket of California &#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>In Drought, Water War In Calif. Fought Underground<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-meta\">\n<div id=\"storybyline\">\n<div id=\"res19761027\">\nby\u00a0THE ASSOCIATED PRESS\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><time datetime=\"2013-09-07\">September 07, 2013\u00a07:13 PM<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\nFRESNO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 For decades, this city in California&#8217;s agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew.<br \/>\nBut eventually, the water table dropped by more than 100 feet, causing some of Fresno&#8217;s wells to cave in and others to slow to a trickle. The cost of replacing those wells and extracting groundwater ballooned by 400 percent.<br \/>\n&#8220;We became the largest energy demand in the region \u2014 $11 million a year for electricity just to run the pumps,&#8221; said Martin Querin, manager of the city&#8217;s water division, which supplies 550,000 residents.<br \/>\nFresno is just one player in a water war that&#8217;s quietly being fought underground. Throughout the Central Valley \u2014 one of the world&#8217;s most productive agricultural regions \u2014 farmers, residents and cities have seen their wells go dry. Those who can afford it have drilled deeper wells that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.<br \/>\nExperts say water supplies have been strained by growing city populations and massive tracts of newly planted orchards and vineyards.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0For the rest of the story see\u00a0https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=220138213&amp;ft=1&amp;f<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundwater depletion is a growing problem, perhaps nowhere more acutely than in the breadbasket of California &#8230; &nbsp; In Drought, Water War In Calif. Fought Underground by\u00a0THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 07, 2013\u00a07:13 PM FRESNO, Calif. 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