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Fresno, Calif.'s Groundwater is Dangerously Low
2013-09-07 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For decades, this city in California's agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew. But eventually, the water table dropped by more than 100 feet, causing some of Fresno's wells to cave in and others to slow to a trickle. The cost of replacing those wells and extracting groundwater ballooned by 400 percent. "We became the largest energy demand in the region - $11 million a year for electricity...
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Grapes are washed at the Gallo winery in Fresno in this 1995 file photo.
2013-08-31 10:26:29| Beverages - Topix.net
E & J Gallo Winery has agreed to buy Thompson seedless grapes for $250 a ton, down from last season's record $325 a ton, said Nat DiBuduo, president and CEO of Allied Grape Growers.
Word on the Street: New Grocery Outlet to open in southeast Fresno
2013-08-26 02:41:40| Grocery - Topix.net
The discount store won't open for several months - possibly in October. Major renovations are happening at the store now.
Word on the Street: Mo. native wins chance to run Fresno Rocky Mountain chocolate store
2013-08-19 04:00:37| Food - Topix.net
LaTricia Adkins spends a lot of time at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store near Fashion Fair mall.
Fire uncovers hidden gas leak in Fresno
2013-07-07 10:02:00| Energy - Topix.net
A fire that started early Saturday morning in a basement of the old JC Penney building in downtown Fresno may have averted a gas explosion, officials said.
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