bilitating drought continues to grip the state, many have turned to underground water to fill in the gaps. Now, some 60 percent of the state`s water is being pumped out of the ground and mainly for agricultural needs.
Without that cushion of water, the ground is collapsing down into where that water once was.
No one would build a cement foundation above the ground like this. This is happening because of subsidence.
SNEED: Infrastructure has to be replaced. So, that`s one facet and at least that`s a repairable. It`s very expensive but it is fixable.
ELAM: Believe it or not, I`m walking on a bridge right now. But through many years of subsidence, this bridge has collapsed down into the earth, so much so that the road is actually below the water level of this canal.
SNEED: Anything that crosses these areas, roads, railways, pipelines, all of those things can be affected if there`s enough differential subsidence.
DR. CLAUDIA FAUNT, USGS HYDROLOGIST: It only going to subside to parts where you`re pulling the water out.
We passed legislation in the state to start monitoring and trying to make in the state to start monitoring and trying to make our groundwater basins come into balance. One of the issues with that is it`s going to take about 20 to 25 years before we have to put and implement those policies.
ELAM: Yes, 20 to 25 years, but you`re talking about the Central Valley losing a foot a year.
FAUNT: Yes. So, locally --
ELAM: Where we`re standing right now, I mean, we could be standing down there by the time that happens.
FAUNT: Yes, it`s a problem and different water agencies are going to have to work together to figure that out and some of them are going to figure out, OK, maybe we need to do something about this sooner than 20, 25 years from now.
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AZUZ: It`s not easy to make a half court shot, period. But under pressure, let`s say a big chunk of the school is watching, and you`re at a college with a student body of more than 20,000 people and your tuition is on the line. What do you do?
If you`re Len Turner, you nail. Yes, there`s good reason why he`s celebrating, too.
Out of state tuition at Indiana`s Ball State University is more than $11,000. But this semester, for Mr. Turner and his splendiferous shooting skills, tuition will be nothing. Well, nothing but net.
The shot he sunk shrank his fees, a sinking feeling that`s appealing, living him reeling and sealing savings in what he might call B-Ball State University.
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