On 09/12/2015 7:30 AM, trader_4 wrote:
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One other thing that might be worth considering is that El Nino
is brewing in the Pacific at this very moment and it's a big one.
That will almost certainly put an end to the CA drought in the
next few months, so in the range of solutions, he might want
to factor that in. Or maybe secure the tanks so they don't slide
away with the mud....

Can only hope but while it's possible to replenish some of the surface
water, it'll take years rather than months for groundwater to recover
and likely some areas have been so depleted they never will; at least in
practical time spans of just a few years.

The areas in the Central Valley that have subsided (some places by feet,
not just inches) are now more compacted such that renewal will be
limited even if rains/snowmelts do return such that regeneration will be
slower if not permanently lost...it's not a pretty thought.

It'd been one thing to have had the drought in the area 1000 yr ago when
it wasn't populated; it's something else again now that it has been so
thoroughly pumped out of ground reservoirs to boot...

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