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California is tapping water that rained 20,000 years ago to deal with epic drought

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California has been making headlines for the gravity of its prolonged drought . This January was the driest month on record since 1895 and the latest estimates warn that the  Golden State has just one year of water left. If dried-up wells and sinking farmland are not dire enough, how does drinking prehistoric water sound? That’s right, California is so thirsty that it’s drilling down through the eons to tap water that fell on Earth 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. Read the rest of California is tapping water that rained 20,000 years ago to deal with epic drought Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: california drought , Carbon dating , ground water , ice age water , los angeles times , Pleistocene Epoch , prehistoric water , subsidence , us geological survey , water drilling , water issues

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