With a historic snowpack starting to melt, increasing flood concerns in central California, there's an effort under way to capture as much of the water as possible in underground aquifers.
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Cosumnes River water floods a vineyard to recharge groundwater in an experiment conducted by the Dahlke Lab at the University of California, Davis. A UC scientist believes managed aquifer recharge on agricultural lands close to populations with parched wells is a hopeful solution.
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When droughts strike, people who rely on shallow domestic wells for their drinking, cooking and washing water are among the first to feel the pain.
Aquifers have become depleted from decades of overuse. Drilling deeper is an option for farmers, but prohibitively expensive for low-income residents in disadvantaged communities in California s San Joaquin Valley.
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Rob Wilson, director of the University of California s Intermountain Research and Extension Center in Tulelake, Calif., will face a season of zero water deliveries from the Klamath River as drought continues its chokehold on the West. The loss of water means research will cease on many projects at the station. Tulelake s Intermountain Research and Extension Center, SJ Valley s Westside Research and Extension Center will lose irrigation water.
California farmers aren t the only ones suffering with zero water allocations this season. The research efforts they rely upon from Extension programs will also be hurt as two University of California research stations have been told not to expect surface water deliveries and others may suffer similar water woes this year.