California has experienced the driest it's been in 1200 years. The overall water table has dropped 200 feet and that's left a lot of wells going dry. In 2022 we've had like 1500 wells that have gone dry. When you have the resources to drill deep then you have the insurance to tap into water even during drought periods.
Despite the rain-soaked year California has had, the ongoing issues of drought and limited water remain. Bloomberg reporters Peter Waldman, Mark Chediak, and Sinduja Rangarajan join this episode to talk about how farms that grow lucrative cash crops like almonds and pistachios are digging deeper and deeper wells to tap the state’s dwindling groundwater supply–leaving people in some communities with less to drink.
Read the investigation here: Groundwater Gold Rush
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