emptybagofdicks t1_jdct9mr wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:06 PM Reply to comment by SasquatchTamales in Why California is still in drought despite heavy rain and snow by bogdanelcs The problem is that people have been pumping too much groundwater and that takes a long time to replenish. In some places the wells have already run dry. Precipitation alone cannot solve that problem. Permalink Parent −1−
emptybagofdicks t1_j10p9i3 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 8:37 PM Reply to comment by BostonOnFire in [OC] Percentage of International Migrants Per Country by andyprendy I'm sure the data is not recent enough to account for the Ukrainian refugees. Permalink Parent 2
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Reply to comment by SasquatchTamales in Why California is still in drought despite heavy rain and snow by bogdanelcs
The problem is that people have been pumping too much groundwater and that takes a long time to replenish. In some places the wells have already run dry. Precipitation alone cannot solve that problem.