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Flooding Farms, Restoring Groundwater

Taking advantage of a rainy winter, researchers at UC Davis are experimenting with a new method aimed at recharging California's parched aquifers
  • By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis
  • March 09, 2016
Flooding Farms, Restoring Groundwater

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Flooding Farms, Restoring Groundwater
An almond orchard outside Modesto, California, is deliberately flooded as part of a groundwater banking experiment being conducted by researchers at UC Davis. (Photo courtesy of Joe Proudman, UC Davis)

The Central Valley sky was a never-ending expanse of gray. Not a single pixel of blue in sight. Under it, UC Davis scientists were flooding a Modesto, California, almond orchard with half a foot of water. On purpose. In the pouring rain.

Yet what they were doing could play a...

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