Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eugenius Warming
7 Dec 2017
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The soil is rich and the weather is warm. More than 300 different crops grow on the valley"s wide. Flat floor makes the grow better than other area around country. Farmers have long depended on two interconnected sources of water. Many use surface flows from the san joaquin and sacramento rivers, divvied up according to water rights and delivered to fields via a complex network of pipes and canals. Most supplement this plumbing with groundwater, and in the driest corners of the valley, aquifers are so overdrawn that fields have sunk by more than 30 feet: explain the importance of winter storms in the western united states. In the western united states, most water arrives in winter storms, Because of the climate change, the winters are warmer which decrease the snow stored in the mountains. It worsens drought: when a similar drought impacted australia, how did that country respond? around the start of this century.
