Cities around the world are sinking. Causes include sheer mass of buildings (NYC), fracking (Houston), and tapping of ...

Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research suggests ways of addressing the problem.

Katy city engineer David Kasper eagerly awaits its arrival. “From our perspective, the concern to some degree is subsidence,” he said. “But the aquifer level is the bigger concern.” ...

Where subsidence is causing the most harm, we’ve got to try and get it to those compacting aquifers.” A section of the Friant-Kern Canal that was damaged by subsidence undergoes repairs in 2022.

This subsidence (slow, often imperceptible sinking of the ground) is not due to earthquakes or erosion. It’s largely because we’re pumping too much water from underground aquifers, draining ...

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The study cites the compaction of aquifers, a process in which the supply of water in an aquifer is withdrawn faster than it is recharged, as a leading cause of subsidence.

Subsidence, often called an "invisible threat," can damage infrastructure and increase flood risks. While some cities show slight uplift, it's negligible and doesn't negate the overall sinking ...

The solution to subsidence is to put water back in the ground, what scientists call managed aquifer recharge, which can reinflate the land.

In addition to divulging the average subsidence rate of nearly an inch per year, the scientists determined that San Joaquin Valley aquifers need about 220 billion gallons of water coming in ...

History repeating itself Subsidence occurs as water is removed from natural reservoirs called aquifers, where water is stored in underground sediments including sand, gravel, and clay.