California Today: A Fight Over Water in the Mojave (New York Times)
New York TimesJune 9th, 2017
“We’re very concerned right now,” said Frazier Haney, conservation director of the Mojave Desert Land Trust, a nonprofit.
Mr. Haney said pumping in the Mojave could permanently damage the groundwater basin through subsidence, or sinking of the ground. “Once we break it, we can’t get it back,” he added.
A major point of contention between the two sides is whether the aquifer would be naturally recharged in equilibrium with the water being removed. The science is fiercely disputed.