Drought

Drought lifts land in California, Western US as water level drops

The drought that has been plaguing life in California and the western US has resulted in a rise of Earth’s crust.

According to researchers, the drought has caused overall drop in water levels, leading to rise of Earth’s crust to one-sixth of an inch since last year.

The drought in California and Western US is a year and a half now and since then it has depleted 63 trillion gallons of water across the Western US, a report in The Los Angeles Times said, citing a new study on how the parched conditions are altering the landscape.

The scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the US Geological Survey said that the loss of groundwater and surface water sources like reservoirs has been so extreme in the said duration that it lifted the Earth’s surface in the West by an average of one-sixth of an inch since last year.