{"id":44132,"date":"2014-08-04T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/meanwhile-in-todays-depressing-water-supply-news.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:48:28","slug":"meanwhile-in-todays-depressing-water-supply-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/meanwhile-in-todays-depressing-water-supply-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in today's depressing water supply news"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've recently posted about drought and aquifer depletion in Texas, and California's state-wide drought and its impact on agriculture. Here's another bit of jolly news coverage about in-between — the Colorado River, itself stressed by drought, and the depletion of aquifers in those areas that would normally be drawing water from it instead.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The not-so-mighty Colorado River?<\/a>
\n It used to make the desert bloom for vegetables and provide ample water for LA and Phoenix. But it’s no longer up to the task.\n <\/p>\n

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I've recently posted about drought and aquifer depletion in Texas, and California's state-wide drought and its impact on agriculture. Here's another bit of jolly news coverage about in-between — the Colorado River, itself stressed by drought, and the depletion of aquifers in those areas that would normally be drawing water from it instead.\ufeff The not-so-mighty … Continue reading “Meanwhile, in today's depressing water supply news”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/the-drought-in-california.html","url_meta":{"origin":44132,"position":0},"title":"The drought in California","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Apr-14 6:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's only going to get worse. 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