11 trillion . 11,000,000,000,000 . However , you wrap your learning ability around it , that act is hard to fathom . But that ’s how many gallons of pee California ’s three - year drought has sucked from the Earth , according to NASA .
In coordination with airborne measurements and orbiting artificial satellite , scientist at NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created first - of - its - sort data by calculating the volume of water lose during a drouth . The results are passably apocalyptic . The Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins plummeted almost 4 trillion gallon every year since 2011 . incisively how bad is that ? Well , NASA says it ’s more water than California uses for domestic and municipal purposes . It ’s also twice as much as the Colorado River ’s annual menses , and 1.5 times as much as the U.S. large artificial lake , Lake Mead . So … jolly speculative .
NASA usedGravity Recovery and Climate Experiment(GRACE ) data and snowpack measurements via NASA’sAirborne Snow Observatoryto piece together this frightening puzzle . The lookout record snowpack by measuring the amount of water in spite of appearance and the amount of sunlight the snow shine . regrettably , the news is n’t much good there either .
“ The 2014 snowpack was one of the scurvy on record and the worst since 1977 , when California ’s universe was half what it is now , ” JPL ’s Tom Painter tell in a acquittance .
The only solution is time . Just as it took years for the drought to get this bad , it will also need years to reclaim . [ NASA ]
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