The following NASA press release discusses the most recent national groundwater map from the GRACE satellite, showing the extent of groundwater depletion due to drought in Texas.
(Eurekalert.org) The record-breaking drought in Texas that has fueled wildfires, decimated crops and forced cattle sales has also reduced levels of groundwater in much of the state to the lowest levels seen in more than 60 years, according to new national maps produced by NASA and distributed by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The latest groundwater map, released on Nov. 29, shows large patches of maroon over eastern Texas, indicating severely depressed groundwater levels. The maps, generated weekly by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are publicly available on the Drought Center’s website.
