subsidence

California’s Central Valley was a landscape of lakes and marshes…

Art: An artist's 19th century depiction of Tulare Lake, now vanished. (Tulare County Library) …then we sucked it dry. Fly…

1 year ago

Feds say Tule groundwater could continue to sink

Despite groundwater sustainability plans, Bureau of Reclamation says capacity of Friant-Kern Canal could fall by another 10% in the coming…

4 years ago

Sinking Lands, Damaged Infrastructure: Will Better Groundwater Management End Subsidence?

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, work continues on managing groundwater for long-term sustainability, as required by California’s landmark…

4 years ago

California’s Key Step Toward Sustainable Groundwater Management

Image: logo of California's Department of Water Resources (DWR) Critically overdrafted groundwater basins are required to submit groundwater sustainability plans…

4 years ago

Animation of Satellite Data Shows SoCal “Breathing” Water

Credit: Bryan Riel and Mark Simons Using an unprecedented number of satellite radar images, geophysicists at Caltech have tracked how…

6 years ago