Depleting the water…

If you didn’t see the great show on CBS 60 Minutes tonight, “Depleting the Water”, here is the 14-minute video clip:

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/PR_v0fXTS1R3wlKACM_XcSCPJJW5SiCx/depleting-the-water/

There are a couple minutes of advertisements near the beginning you can’t skip… but it’s worth it to watch–or re-watch.

Groundwater pumping and depletion, worldwide… 20,000 USGS monitoring wells… 5′ drop in one month… 2002 GRACE satellite launch… gravity measurements of groundwater loss in major aquifers… Water is the new oil… Toilet to Tap… 25 years to implement Calif. groundwater program… Zero water in the California aquifer in the future?