Groundwater Depletion in Semiarid Regions of Texas and California Threatens U.S. Food Security
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)The nation's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion varies across space and time in California's Central Valley and the High Plains of the central U.S.