Even scarier than California’s shrinking reservoirs is its shrinking groundwater supply – 15 to 20 percent of U.S. groundwater is coming from the Central Valley alone

Desdemona Despair By Colleen Shalby 20 March 2015 (PBS) – Last week a startling headline on California’s dire water supply fueled a wave of reports that the state was on borrowed time: “California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?” read the Op-Ed that first appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Several other news outlets picked up the story. But Jay Famiglietti, JPL scientist and author of the Op-Ed that sparked the coverage, said while the problem is indeed serious, many of the headlines didn’t quite get it right.



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