11.9.13 – San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater is being depleted at an alarming rate and something needs to be done before it’s too late, state officials were warned last week.

Here’s a scary statistic: Groundwater reserves are shrinking by 800billion gallons per year in the Central Valley.

“At 100 gallons per day, that is enough water to supply the needs of nearly 22million people each year,” calculated Jay Famiglietti, director of the University of California Center for Hydrologic Modeling. Read more here.