Climate change has significantly increased crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley, and the shift since 2011 is a volume of water the size of a major reservoir.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371/journal.pwat.0000184
Article Title: An invisible water surcharge: Climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater-dependent irrigated agriculture
Author Countries: United States
Funding: This work was supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (Award No. 2021-69012-35916 to KM, JTA, AEB, JMA, and JHV) and by NSF and USDA-NIFA under the AI Research Institutes program for the AgAID Institute (Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support) (Award No. 2021-67021-3534 to JTA, JMA, and JHV). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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