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Kern County water agency hopes to run extra groundwater back up the Calif. aqueduct
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Apr 23, 2014
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Kern County water agency hopes to run extra groundwater back up the Calif. aqueduct
If desperate times call for desperate measures, then California's severe drought is sure to inspire some unusual efforts.
File photo: An oil derrick is seen near vineyards north of the Grapevine in central California's Kern County where the Chrisman Wind Gap Pumps, part of the California Aqeduct System, lifts water about 800 feet up the mountainside to begin its crossing of the Tehacahpis to deliver water into Southern California, on February 3, 2014.
File photo: An oil derrick is seen near vineyards north of the Grapevine in central California's Kern County where the Chrisman Wind Gap Pumps, part of the California Aqeduct System, lifts water about 800 feet up the mountainside to begin its crossing of the Tehacahpis to deliver water into Southern California, on February 3, 2014.
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"While the state's agricultural industry has national importance, it represents a very modest portion of the state's gross product and employment," says a new report by Moody's.
File photo: The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the snowcapped Sierra Nevada Mountains, which carry less snow than normal, to major urban areas of southern California on May 9, 2008 near Lone Pine, California.
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If desperate times call for desperate measures, then California's severe drought is sure to inspire some unusual efforts.

If desperate times call for desperate measures, then California's severe drought is sure to inspire some unusual efforts. Water districts in the San Joaquin Valley are proposing something that's never been tried before during a drought: They want to reverse the state's plumbing by running the California Aqueduct backwards.

Read the article by California Report's Lauren Sommer for more.