Wednesday, December 16, 2009

How much water has CA lost since 2003? There's a sat for that.

Measuring changes in California's gravity, data from NASA's Grace satellites estimate the state has lost 30 cubic km of water since 2003. So? California's Central Valley grows about a tenth of the nation's crops, about 250 different varieties. Yet, "the numbers we're getting out of this analysis point to groundwater use at unsustainable rates."

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I started pound360 to channel my obsession with vitamins, running and the five senses. Eventually, I got bored focusing on all that stuff, so I came back from a one month hiatus in May of 2007 (one year after launching Pound360) and broadened my mumblings here to include all science.