Transcript Power Point presentation - Save Palo Alto`s Groundwater!

Effects of Groundwater
Depletion
Save Palo Alto’s Groundwater
May 2, 2016
California’s Groundwater Depletion 2011 - 2013
Climate Progress
October 31, 2014
 Groundwater Depletion Contributes to Sea Level Rise
10 News Tampa Bay, Sarasota
December 20, 2015
 Groundwater Depletion Can Trigger Earthquakes
Climate Progress
May 15, 2014
 Groundwater Depletion Threatens Our Food Supplies
Climate Progress
October 31, 2014
 Groundwater Depletion Can Cause Subsidence
The Watchers
August 11, 2014
 Groundwater Depletion Can Lead to Loss In Water Storage
Capacity of Aquifers
Live Science
August 21, 2015
• Groundwater Depletion Leads to Infrastructure
Damage
“With less underground water to buoy it, the
land surface is sinking as much as a foot a year
in spots, causing roads to buckle and bridges to
crack.”
NY Times, April 5, 2015
Other Possible Consequences of
Groundwater Depletion
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Salt Water Intrusion
Water Quality Degradation
Possible Migration of Toxins
Harm to Groundwater-Dependent
Ecosystems, Rivers, Lakes, etc.
 Pumping is Energy-Intensive Leading to
Increase in Green House Gases
 The Hidden Costs of Groundwater Overdraft (Stanford), 2014
• “California, so far ahead of the
country on other environmental
issues, became the last state [2014]
in the arid West to move toward
serious limits on the use of its
groundwater.”
The NY Times 4/6/2015
• Will the same be said of Palo Alto?