The drought has now gotten the attention of NASA. Better satellite technology has enabled them to illustrate a dramatic drop in water storage around the state. A team of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, led by Jay Famiglietti has issued findings that say it will now take about 12 trillion gallons of water to fully recover lost supplies, the first ever calculation of its kind…

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Famiglietti says 12-trillion gallons is around one and a half times the maximum volume of the largest U.S reservoir. He says about two-thirds of the loss is due to depletion of groundwater beneath the Central Valley….

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Famiglietti says he thought it was important to make the data available for water managers and he hopes it will get more people to develop conservation as a way of life, even when there isn’t a drought, so deficits during future droughts will not be as large.