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May 28, 2024 · Published in PLOS Water, the joint study used existing data to estimate water demand for crops from 1980 to 2023 in the San Joaquin Valley. The researchers found a 4.4% increase in the area’s water deficit over the last 10 years compared to the previous three decades.
This current, remarkably average water year – not last year’s barn burner – will be the true test to see how well groundwater agencies are rejuvenating the San Joaquin Valley’s withered aquifers, longtime water managers say. Yes, 2023’s historic wet year did a lot to help groundwater levels rebound in many parts of the valley….
Jun 2, 2022 · Stanford study shows water levels must rise to halt subsidence. A Stanford University study simulates 65 years of land subsidence, or sinking, caused by groundwater depletion in California’s San ...
Dec 14, 2023 · Part of a series on the causes and consequences of disappearing water. Dec. 14, 2023. The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The ...
Aug 20, 2021 · Lea este artículo en español.. In an aggressive move to address “immediate and dire water shortages,” California’s water board today unanimously approved emergency regulations to temporarily stop thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.
Jan 3, 2013 · The valley's cities such as Fresno and Bakersfield are surging in population while the global demand for food rises, leaving the region facing many challenges: depleted groundwater reserves ...
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The San Joaquin Valley—California’s largest agricultural region and an important contributor to the nation’s food supply—is in a time of great change. The valley produces more than half of the state’s agricultural output. Irrigated farming is the region’s main economic driver and predomi-nant water user.
