“Deeper Pockets, Deeper Wells”
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California's Increasingly Scarce Water Is Turning Into Enormous Profits
Mark Chettyak, Peter Waldman and Sindhuja Runkarajan are here to tell us about their investigation of how some companies are turning California's increasingly scarce water into enormous profits. Because the groundwater has been depleted, they're having to build these massive wells that plunge a thousand feet or deeper into the deeper aquifer in order to find the resource during drought periods.
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