While storms have inundated California with moisture in recent days, and there has been an improvement in drought conditions, more than 97% of California was experiencing at least moderate drought as of last week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
In the San Joaquin Valley, an area in central California known as the breadbasket of the world, people have long bolstered the water supply by pumping from underground basins. But experts say people have been overdrafting groundwater for years.
Derick Grabow, a sixth-generation well driller, said usable water used to be just 60 to 100 feet beneath the surface. But that has since changed.Groundwater accumulates in subterranean bodies of porous rock or sediment called aquifers. But generations of pumping have left them significantly depleted. Nearly two-thirds of California's monitoring wells are below normal levels.
Grabow said drilling is necessary."And, you know what ... what sucks the most is, of course, the farmer, the dairyman, the customer is paying for it." "I had to tell my wife, you know, 'Hey, don't wash the clothes right now because they're pulling water,'" he said.
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