Saturday, 13 June 2015

California - someone missing the point?

California farmers resign themselves to drought: 'Nobody's fault but God's'

Despite efforts to dig deeper into the earth to get at diminishing groundwater, the spectre of desertification may cost Central Valley farmers too much to carry on. Read more here:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/california-drought-farmers-drilling-groundwater-environment

And yet the fracking continues with each well fracked using up to 4.4 million gallons of waterhttp://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/03/12/how-much-water-it-takes-to-frack-a-well/  

Difficult to have any sympathy. Ed 

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