As people dig ever deeper to find water,nearly 1200 square miles of California is sinking 2 inches a month – destroying roads, bridges and farmland in the processOn a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, and Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees,buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
This is the hidden disaster of California’s drought. So much water has been pumped out of the ground that huge areas of the Central Valley are sinking, and destroying millions of dollars in infrastructure in the gradual collapse.[br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com