California groundwater windfall tempered by oil & gas activity

Stanford University scientists have found that California's drought-stricken Central Valley has three times more groundwater than previously estimated, but safeguarding these deep aquifers from oil and gas activity will be challenging. In this video, Professor Rob Jackson visits Kern County, an agricultural breadbasket of the U.S. and the heart of California’s fossil-fuel industry. Jackson found a surprising amount of oil and gas activity occurring directly into local aquifers, raising concerns about chemical contamination of the newly discovered sources of freshwater for irrigation and drinking. MORE INFORMATION: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/27/s... Jackson Lab: https://earth.stanford.edu/rob-jackson PNAS study: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/p... Precourt Institute for Energy: https://energy.stanford.edu/ Stanford Earth: https://earth.stanford.edu/