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Huge Aquifers Discovered Deep Under Drought-Stricken California
discover ^ | 06/27/2016 | Nathaniel Scharping

Posted on 06/28/2016 4:58:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The researchers compiled data from the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, which tracks oil and gas wells around the state. Researchers determined if water had been detected while drilling, and also gathered data about depth, salinity and pressure. After looking at 360 oil and gas fields spread across eight counties, the researchers say that they’ve documented a trove of fresh water just over half the size of Lake Michigan hidden in California’s bedrock 1,000 to nearly 10,000 feet below the surface.

This is almost three times more groundwater than what was indicated in previous studies, many conducted over 20 years ago, and which stopped at a depth of 1,000 feet. Water any deeper than that was considered too expensive to retrieve, and could remain out of reach for the foreseeable future. While the survey extended to around 10,000 feet, the researchers say that much of the water lies closer to the surface, around 3,000 feet deep. The researchers published their work Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Tapping into these reservoirs would be expensive, given how deep they are, but could provide a desperately sought-after answer to the water crisis. Doing so may entail curtailing drilling activities in some regions, however, an option that would likely prove unpopular among the many oil and gas companies already operating in the area.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.discovermagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: aquifers; califaquifers; califdrought; california; desalination; desalinationplants; drought; originoftheoceans; ringwoodite; wadatibenioffzone; water
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To: BenLurkin
Release the frackers ... THEY can get it !

In record time WITH BOP installed

21 posted on 06/28/2016 5:34:25 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true ... and it ticks people off.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I liked that series.


22 posted on 06/28/2016 5:50:35 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: BenLurkin

drill baby, drill


23 posted on 06/28/2016 5:50:37 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: kosciusko51

Dang! You beat me to it!!


24 posted on 06/28/2016 5:52:25 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: BenLurkin

Drill in from Vegas! Suck it dry. After all wackoland is going to slide into the ocean anyway!


25 posted on 06/28/2016 5:55:04 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: Pelham

Yep, I always point to Prop 187 as the tipping point in time.

If we had gotten serious about illegals at that point in time, we could have successfully fixed the issue.

Now it’s too late in my opinion. Yes, we can do a better job of guarding the border and a better job deporting those already here illegally. But we are now 2 generations+ into the invasion now and America is changed forever.


26 posted on 06/28/2016 6:04:07 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Short of mass deportation California will never again be an American state.

And even then, as you say, it may well be too late.


27 posted on 06/28/2016 6:08:01 AM PDT by Pelham (Obama, the most unAmerican President in history)
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To: Pelham

lol

we are not even allowed to TALK about deportation, much less actually do it!


28 posted on 06/28/2016 6:11:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Puppage
Huge Aquifers Discovered Deep Under Drought-Stricken California How long before the state taxes it?

Same under Tucson. An underground water supply the size of Lake Erie is way down there but it is there.

29 posted on 06/28/2016 6:12:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: crusty old prospector
It is not that expensive to drill to 3,000.

What is expensive is the energy needed to pump the water out.

Awl $55/barrel, about a buck a gallon.

Water $21/AF, about $0.000065 a gallon.

30 posted on 06/28/2016 6:13:42 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: BenLurkin

If you start taking water from it the greenies will complain about earthquakes.


31 posted on 06/28/2016 6:15:10 AM PDT by McGruff (How about investigating the donations to the Clinton Foundation)
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To: Personal Responsibility

This is impossible. California hit “peak water” years ago. Scientists told us so. They are never wrong. Ever.

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The problem is usually the journalists who report science, not the scientists.


32 posted on 06/28/2016 6:16:50 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: BenLurkin

They’ll have to Frack to get it, so enviro nuts say no go..........................


33 posted on 06/28/2016 6:17:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: BenLurkin

But drilling and pumping out water will trigger massive earthquakes, as will be “proven” by the first tremors that Southern Cal feels after the projects have started.


34 posted on 06/28/2016 6:20:13 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: BenLurkin

But you cannot ever use any of the water because there might be a bug living in it that would be endangered if humans touch its habitat.


35 posted on 06/28/2016 6:21:08 AM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: null and void

> Water $21/AF, about $0.000065 a gallon.

Desalinated water has amortized costs around 0.0013 a gallon with state-of-the-art plants, so about 20x more than natural water.


36 posted on 06/28/2016 6:25:47 AM PDT by Mr170IQ
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To: TexasFreeper2009; Pelham

a reminder
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_187,_Illegal_Aliens_Ineligible_for_Public_Benefits_(1994)


37 posted on 06/28/2016 6:26:30 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true ... and it ticks people off.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Would solve a lot of problems, no?

But then again, without problems, politicians would have nothing to pontificate about.


38 posted on 06/28/2016 6:28:03 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: null and void

Submersible pump. All it takes is electricity.


39 posted on 06/28/2016 6:28:47 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: taildragger

I was going to add the runoff stuff but than gets into all the environauts against humanity stuff. Not enough time.


40 posted on 06/28/2016 6:29:24 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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