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California Sinking

22 Sep 2019
Corcoran, California, United States
For more than a century farmers in California's Central Valley have been pumping water out of the ground — so much so that the land is slowly sinking, a process known as subsidence. In fewer than 100 years, it's dropped 8½ metres.
CBC / Kim Brunhuber
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