In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores - Inside Climate News

In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores - Inside Climate News

A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.By Emma Foehringer MerchantIn recent decades, as water has grown increasingly precious, Californians have tried countless ways to find more of it and make it last longer, including covering agricultural canals with solar panels to prevent evaporation, building costly desalination plants and pulling out tracts o…