[TMA62]

Likely compounded by the increase in obesity over the years. ;-)

[Lorianne]

"The rates of San Joaquin Valley subsidence documented since 2014 by NASA are troubling and unsustainable," DWR Director William Croyle is quoted saying in a recent post from NASA Earth Observatory. "Subsidence has long plagued certain regions of California. But the current rates jeopardize infrastructure serving millions of people. Groundwater pumping now puts at risk the very system that brings water to the San Joaquin Valley. The situation is untenable."

And yet .... more and more people keep going to California, many of them immigrant, legal and illegal.

What part of UNSUSTAINABLE do the people of California not understand?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Oh noes!!! Global drying!!!

[SparkyBass]

The sheer weight of the egos in Hollywood make me wonder why Cali hasn’t simply sunk below sea-level long ago

[Lorianne]

"The rates of San Joaquin Valley subsidence documented since 2014 by NASA are troubling and unsustainable," DWR Director William Croyle is quoted saying in a recent post from NASA Earth Observatory. "Subsidence has long plagued certain regions of California. But the current rates jeopardize infrastructure serving millions of people. Groundwater pumping now puts at risk the very system that brings water to the San Joaquin Valley. The situation is untenable."

And yet .... more and more people keep going to California, many of them immigrant, legal and illegal.

What part of UNSUSTAINABLE do the people of California not understand?

[Yaelle]

The image is amazing but it doesn’t show the depths of depravity. Or it would show Los Angeles reaching molten magma depths.

Gonna be 90 F today, so I believe it.

[Mr. Douglas]

Not fast enough!

[Cicero]

Parts of California are sinking because rich liberals need to water their lawns, fill their swimming pools every day, and stay green.

[Organic Panic]

Keep pumping that ground water. We have to save the minnows.

[Popman]

Wow....60 cm is almost 2 feet...

Why haven’t building collapsed from dropping two feet?

[simpson96]

"...California is sinking"

Not fast enough!

(Apologies to any Freepers there)

[dearolddad]

Global warming! Global warming !!

[rockrr]

Curious (and a little alarmed at the prospect of becoming a Morlock) I went outside to view the ground around my home. Thank the Lord it’s still brown and not purple, blue, or yellow like the picture!

[Leep]

Like Cali has sank quite low. Like you know what i am say’n.

[mewzilla]

They’ve offered a hypothesis that the subsidence is do, solely or in part, to the drop in water levels. But where’s the proof? Looks like their data is from 2014 on. That’s not much.

[husky ed]

My God they should have build another freeway, as it seems the sinking stopped at I-5 ;-)

Ed

[CIB-173RDABN]

Record rains, floods. reservoirs so fall they have to release water, record snow packs, dams breaking but they have to keep up with the story we are in the middle of a drought.

Who are you going to believe, your soggy feet or the lying government.

[SFConservative]

And a good part of this problem is due to:

• a halt in building reservoirs since the 1970s, as the legislature turned predominantly Democrat and Jerry Brown ended reservoir and freeway construction to be able to spend more money on direct vote buying with more and more entitlements
• more and more diversion of Northern California water to the Los Angeles basin to keep swimming pools filled and lawns green
• in the current decade, dumping of massive amounts of reservoir water directly down through the Sacramento / San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay into the ocean to keep approximately 6 delta smelt happy

All of this progressively has withdrawn water from California's Central Valley agriculture engine, so that many farmers began to draw more and more water from wells and deeper aquifers, which of course is now seeing restrictions as well.

[mass55th]

I didn't think California could sink any lower. Must be the weight of all those illegals they've let in.*

*"Rep. Hank Johnson said he feared that stationing 8,000 Marines on Guam would cause the island to 'become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize' ".

[Rebelrage]

The ground is sinking! Because Whitey.