Southern Kalifornia was a DESERT before the crooks figured out how to steal Arizona's share of the Colorado River water. Thanks to John McCain, that ended with the CAP being dug and the water diverted from the Kali crooks to us. Wet times, dry times, the southwest goes through these periods off and on and has since the beginning of time. Almost 90% of the water we get from our mountains and the CAP goes to agriculture and we have no artificial "shortages".
We don't raid our aquifers and our waste water purification plants are state of the art. And we have a GOP state government which is run by experts not political appointees. Maybe Kalifornia should try that instead of invading us and trying the same shit here.
Groundwater depletion USGS water science
Desert Southwest - Increased groundwater pumping to support population growth in south-
central Arizona (including the Tucson and Phoenix areas) has resulted in water-level declines of between 300 and 500 feet in much of the area. Land subsidence was first noticed in the 1940s and subsequently as much as 12.5 feet of subsidence has been measured. Additionally, lowering of the water table has resulted in the loss of streamside vegetation.
If you choose to misrepresent data so easy to check on, why should anyone give credance to anything at all that you post?
Those aquifers are full to the brim again, dillweed...next time try a second source...your first one SUCKED.
Dumb ****, USGS is about as good as a source gets. Why don't you give a source for your nonsense?
I've lived in Phoenix for 40 years, turd blossom.
I don't give a damn if you have lived in hell for 40 years, what you just said is total idiocy. Do you have any idea of how long it takes to recharge an aquifer?
http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/proj.bib/Publications/2011/mcmahon_plummer_etal_2011.pdf
Abstract An overview is presented of existing groundwater-
age data and their implications for assessing rates
and timescales of recharge in selected unconfined aquifer
systems of the United States. Apparent age distributions in
aquifers determined from chlorofluorocarbon, sulfur
hexafluoride, tritium/helium-3, and radiocarbon measurements
from 565 wells in 45 networks were used to calculate
groundwater recharge rates. Timescales of recharge were
defined by 1,873 distributed tritium measurements and 102
radiocarbon measurements from 27 well networks. Recharge
rates ranged from<10 to 1,200mm/yr in selected aquifers on
the basis of measured vertical age distributions and assuming
exponential age gradients. On a regional basis, recharge rates
based on tracers of young groundwater exhibited a significant
inverse correlation with mean annual air temperature and a
significant positive correlation with mean annual precipitation.
Comparison of recharge derived from groundwater ages with
recharge derived from stream base-flow evaluation showed
similar overall patterns but substantial local differences.
Results from this compilation demonstrate that age-based
recharge estimates can provide useful insights into
spatial and temporal variability in recharge at a national
scale and factors controlling that variability. Local age-based
recharge estimates provide empirical data and process
information that are needed for testing and improving more
spatially complete model-based methods.
Now before I post something that can be so easily checked on, I do at least a little research. But I have seen you 'Conservatives' repeatedly post absolute nonsense pulled out of your ass, and then try to defend it. All without giving any source at all for you opinion.