On 2016-12-04 9:13 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 12/3/2016 6:25 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-12-03 7:42 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>> On 12/3/2016 4:30 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> Are you seriously suggesting that sucking water out of the aquifer to
>>>> irrigate crops will result in replenishment? You know that a lot of it
>>>> will be lost in evaporation and through transpiration in the plants and
>>>> trees that are being water. Feel free to explain out the irrigation
>>>> will lead to anything but a net loss.
>>>
>>> irrigation district imported water, but gave a partial credit to almond
>>> farmers due to the ground water recharge resulting from their
>>> irrigation.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Apparently they are flooding fields of almond trees during the winter so
>> that it can seep down into the aquifer and there have been some positive
>> results. In most other places farmers irrigating from the aquifer are
>> pumping the water out faster than it can be replenished.
>>
>
>
> They were flood irrigating or other wise using imported water during the
> summer.

Ah... they were taking it from one aquifer to feed it to another one.
The articles I read talked about flooding them in the winter.