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Groundwater as a Buffer for Drought Bridget Scanlon, Michael Young, Alex Sun,
Brad Wolaver, and Robert Reedy
Bureau of Economic Geology, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
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Water Resources Issue
We have plenty of water when we don’t need it and not enough when we do.
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Reservoir Storage and Population Growth
TWDB State Water Plan 2012
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Reduction in Per Capita Reservoir Storage
TWDB State Water Plan 2012
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Total water stored: 1,200 MAF
Water depletion: 170 MAF
Central valley,
California
Scanlon et al., 2012
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Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM) 1962 - 2003
Faunt, 2009
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GRACE Groundwater Storage Changes drought (2006 – 2009): 11 MAF/yr, total ~40 MAF
Scanlon et al., 2012
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Spreading Basins for Groundwater Banking in California
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Arvin Edison Water Banking System, Central Valley
Scanlon et al., 2012
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Aquifer Storage Capacity
TWDB State Water Plan 2007
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Summary
• Surface water, renewable, vulnerable to droughts and floods
• Groundwater, renewable – nonrenewable, alternative to surface water during drought
• Conjunctive use of surface water and groundawter
• Aquifer storage and recovery provides a valuable approach for managing extremes