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• Robert Prior commented on Silence this week ...
  Looks like he's storing water available during times to low demand, for use during high-demand times. Unless I missed it, there's no mention of long-term recharging. I once worked beside a geochronology unit who were tracing groundwater. They were sarcastic about how 100,000 year old old water was considered a "renewable resource", on the grounds that it was an 'underground river', and so conservation measures were deemed to be of minor interest....
• Heteromeles commented on Silence this week ...
  More or less. The problem with San Joaquin groundwater is that it's basically being mined out, so he's just refilling the mine for his own use. However, it's not that stupid. In the normal years that California will never have again, the reservoirs don't capture all the water, and a lot gets "lost" to the sea (meaning the rivers actually flow for a change). Back before California got plumbed, the Central Valley (San Joaquin Valley+Sacramento Valley) supported a lot of seasonal and permanent wetlands that were fed by this flood, and this is where the groundwater came from in the...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Silence this week ...
  Again, your post & that of R Prior show that the people on the ground are all to well aware of the GW long-term problem - they are doing the "Act Local" bot. Whether it will be enough, or will, at the very least, help them & their locality is a n other question. As is the one I asked earlier, about how this plays out at the national US level, with utter lying bastards like Trump claiming the whole thing is a fraud, when about half the entire USA believe it to be real, at the very least. Interesting,...
• martin089 commented on Silence this week ...
  Unconnected to GW (global warming), connected to GW (groundwater): In my (northwestern) corner of Germany, supposedly a country with decent environmental standards, less and less groundwater is usable because of nitrate infiltration from fertilizer over-application. There'S laws and bylaws about how much N etc. may go onto a field, but for some reason no real enforcement, apparantly no fines nothing. Infuriating how powerful the meat production lobby must be....
• Bellinghman commented on Silence this week ...
  Powerful indeed if they're the ones responsible for the arable farmers using nitrates too much. I suspect they're also responsible for Germany switching from nuclear to coal burning in recent years....