The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District announced Friday, July 18, that the aquifer beneath the Bunker Hill Basin — an important source of drinking water — was at a record low. Grant Hindsley/AP
Molly Peterson
July 18, 2014
An underground aquifer that is an important source of drinking water for the Inland Empire is at a record low, local water officials reported Friday.
Officials with the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District and neighboring agencies say groundwater levels in an aquifer beneath the Bunker Hill Basin are at their lowest level in recorded history. The aquifer provides much of the drinking water for San Bernardino, Riverside and a number of surrounding communities.
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No water shortage deniers today?
Is it finely sinking in?
“…lowest level in recorded history…”
You’re seeing this all over California. This is really dangerous and the past three postings of this topic the regular knuckle draggers tried to spin this as some sort of Liberal Agenda… Assholes.
We are running out of water.
C’mon deniers…. where are you? You’ve been loud and boisterous over the last few days and now nothing?
the water shortage is directly linked to a cyclical trend and too many irresponsible development agencies letting more and more people saddle up to the trough. Tax revenue from property taxes is a wonderful thing if you are amoral enough to ignore the dwindling acre foot reserves per household that can be sustained.
The desert has always had a water shortage,;Mulholland knew this. Delta Smelt, the stickleback in the santa ana, and the inability to mandate purple pipe for irrigation needs is leading to the hysteria. The acclaimed UCLA historian Norris Hundley cautioned that, “It is a mistake…to think of California in terms of averages and regular cycles of precipitation.” Settlers’ accounts of the area are laden with odd conclusions based on the extreme conditions present at the time of observation. –
California drought equals bad planning by locals.