"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Faced with massive cutbacks in water supplies due to drought, California farmers are pumping groundwater to attempt to make up some of the difference. Groundwater levels in some areas are dropping alarmingly. On the west side of the San Joaquin…
This is really good news, but no official end to the drought yet, as some reservoirs are still low.
The city of Folsom California gets their drinking water from here. In wet years the water level is nearly up to the lifeguard tower. The entire state is officially in a drought now. (Click to view full-sized)
This on top of the extreme drought, already in its eighth year. The cutbacks in water supply to southern California from the Sacramento Delta were ordered by U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wange to protect smelt, a species of fish.…