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In addition to showing the importance of intentional groundwater banking policies, the study showed how incidental seepage from irrigation has also helped recharge the aquifers, which were initially depleted by intensive groundwater pumping from the 1940s-1970s, and how a wet period from the 1980s-1990s provided an additional boost. Click here to read the story. Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.