The study by Stanford University researchers is the first to quantify the full extent of land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the world’s major farming regions, during the last two ...

A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

A new Stanford study has found parts of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk nearly 1 inch per year from 2006 to 2022, and much of the subsidence can't be reversed. Much of the subsidence occurred ...

California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch per year due to the over-pumping of groundwater supplies, with resource extraction outpacing natural recharge, a new study has found.

A new Stanford study has found parts of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk nearly 1 inch per year from 2006 to 2022, and much of the subsidence can't be reversed.. Much of the subsidence occurred ...

During the extreme drought of 2020-22, when State Water Project allocations dropped to 5% of the contracted amounts, subsidence accelerated in the Central Valley in the same way it did during the ...

California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch per year due to the over-pumping of groundwater supplies, with resource extraction outpacing natural recharge, a new study has found.

Temporal coverage of InSAR data, and the subsidence patterns they reveal, in the San Joaquin Valley. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01778-w ...

The San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural prosperity has been built, in part, on the use of groundwater. It’s made the desert bloom, but the payment has come due: The land above these over-tapped ...

Andrew Ayres, research fellow at PPIC, noted proactive management of dust and farmland can help support air quality improvements in the San Joaquin Valley. He presented a map of communities throughout ...

State takes over groundwater plans in San Joaquin Valley. ... implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act protecting domestic wells from groundwater pumping reversing land subsidence ...