{"id":10992,"date":"2011-02-13T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=10992"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T18:32:06","slug":"the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Valley&#8217;s Giant Sucking Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Studies reveal huge water withdrawals from aquifers under California&#8217;s Central Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10995\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/irrigation_sunset_blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10995\" title=\"Irrigation_sunset_blog\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/Irrigation_sunset_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/Irrigation_sunset_blog.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/Irrigation_sunset_blog-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/Irrigation_sunset_blog-240x158.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>The New York Times<\/em> this weekend published a <a href=\"http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/11\/southwestern-water-going-going-gone\/?ref=science\">story and useful graphic<\/a> describing new findings on the intensity of groundwater pumping in California&#8217;s San Joaquin Valley.<\/p>\n<p>One eye-opening note from Felicity Barringer&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the total loss of groundwater from the Sacramento and San Joaquin River basins in California\u2019s Central Valley from 2003 to 2010 was just under 16.5 million acre-feet \u2014 approximately the volume of the Lower Colorado River reservoir, Lake Mead, when it is full.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"CW - post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/05\/when-will-lake-mead-go-dry\/\">Lake Mead<\/a> is the nation&#8217;s largest man-made reservoir (and has not been full for some time).<\/p>\n<p>The research, by scientists at a Massachusetts arm of the <a title=\"SEI - main\" href=\"http:\/\/sei-international.org\/\">Stockholm Environment Institute<\/a>, includes <a title=\"SEI - pub\" href=\"http:\/\/sei-international.org\/publications?pid=1843\">projections for water supply and demand<\/a> in California and the Southwest. The article points out that about a third of Californians&#8217; total water use is groundwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies reveal huge water withdrawals from aquifers under the Central Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[17,98,268,654],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-10992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-business","category-water","tag-agriculture","tag-central-valley","tag-groundwater","tag-water"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Central Valley&#039;s Giant Sucking Sound | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Central Valley&#039;s Giant Sucking Sound | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Studies reveal huge water withdrawals from aquifers under the Central Valley.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-02-13T18:32:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/02\/Irrigation_sunset_blog.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@voxterra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/\",\"name\":\"The Central Valley's Giant Sucking Sound | Climate Watch\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-13T18:32:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-02-13T18:32:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/13\/the-central-valleys-giant-sucking-sound\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Central Valley&#8217;s Giant Sucking Sound\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Watch\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\",\"name\":\"Craig Miller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dd8f4f4f978df3faac9db4c510939ea0\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Craig Miller\"},\"description\":\"Craig is a former KQED Science editor, specializing in weather, climate, water &amp; 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