Californian.com
January 10, 2014

Water tables have been dropping sharply in places across California as farms and expanding suburbs pump vast quantities of water during successive dry years, taking a heavy toll on many of the state’s aquifers.

Measurements of water levels in wells throughout the state show that aquifers are being significantly depleted in many areas as more water is drained out than seeps back into the ground.

An analysis of groundwater data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and two other agencies has found that, of 3,394 wells across the state, water levels declined in about 62 percent of the wells between 2000 and 2013. Read more at Californian.com.