a correction to my previous comment, the groundwater problem is a side-effect of the drought.
I was also wrong about the amount, it's not 3 trillion gallons gone in the last 10 years, it's 63 trillion gallons used/dried-up since 2013
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63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost
In the snow-starved mountains of California, the Earth rose up to 0.6 inches.
The ongoing drought in the western United States has caused so much loss of groundwater that the Earth, on average, has lifted up about 0.16 inches over the last 18 months, according to a new study.
The situation was even worse in the snow-starved mountains of California, where the Earth rose up to 0.6 inches.
Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the groundwater loss from the start of 2013 to be 63 trillion gallons — the equivalent of flooding four inches of water across the United States west of the Rocky Mountains.
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