How California produces 99% of America's pistachios in a drought

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It took California a century to produce a pistachio harvest. Now, it's the world's top supplier. But as the Dubai chocolate trend fuels demand, and California droughts intensify, growers are fighting to keep up.

Cities Stare Down ‘Day Zero’ as Reservoirs Go Dry

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Humans are depleting groundwater faster than in the past 40 years, but places like Saudi Arabia and Thailand have figured out how to boost their freshwater reserves

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A man stands in a deep hole in the ground, collecting groundwater to water a cow shown on the right.
In about a third of the aquifers analyzed, researchers found that depletion has been more severe in the 21st century than in the last 20 years of the previous one.

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California Could Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland

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This story was originally published by Grist and co-published with Fresnoland.

The US has pumped so much groundwater that it's literally splitting the ground open across the American Southwest

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North Sulphur Springs Valley (north of WIllcox), AZ
A fissure tears open earth and roots in North Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona.

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Humans have pumped so much groundwater from the Earth that it's actually caused the planet's axis to shift, a new study found

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Earth from space.
We're moving so much water from under the continents to the oceans that it's affecting our axial tilt, a new study found.

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