California Drought Issues - Land Subsidence & Agriculture Woes

Another Toll of the Drought:  Land is sinking fast in San Joaquin Valley
(Bettina BOXALL, Los Angeles Times; August 19, 2015)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-groundwater-20150819-story.html

NASA:  California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
(NASA-JPL News Release; August 19, 2015)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-273

Drought costs California Agriculture $1.84B and 10,100 jobs in 2015
(UC Davis News and Information; August 18, 2015)
http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11281


Summary Reports and Updates:


Progress Report:  Subsidence in the Central Valley. CA
(Tom FARR et al., 2015)
http://water.ca.gov/groundwater/docs/NASA_REPORT.pdf

Economic Analysis of the 2015 Drought for California Agriculture
(Richard HOWITT et al., 2015)
https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Final_Drought%20Report_08182015_Full_Report_WithAppendices.pdf

Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in the San Joaquin Valley
(Groundwater Voices Coalition; July 24, 2014)
http://www.groundwatervoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/San-Joaquin-Subsidence-Report-July-24-2014.pdf

Drought Update:  Monday, August 17, 2015
http://ca.gov/drought/pdf/Weekly-Drought-Update.pdf



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