[aSockPuppeteer]

Depends how close farmers are to water sources. They run high speed pumps at night or camouflage them in streams to get by water restrictions.

There’s the famous California telephone pole picture too. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/themarinpost/emimg/1249/S...

[peteradio]

I don't understand that telephone pole picture, the ground did not move around the telephone pole surely. I don't understand the graphics either. 1ft/year generally, but slower than that in the most extreme?

[voakbasda]

When you remove the water from the ground, the drained soil compacts. The topmost sign on the pole pole shows where the ground level was 50 years earlier, caused by excessive taking of groundwater.

[croes]

They pump ground water that keads to sinking land, 1 foot per year.

The pole is from 1977 or later but shows the historical land level of 1955 and 1925