The graph below is from Rohnert Park's Environmental Impact Report. It compares the amount of water that the City pumps out of the ground with the amount of water that goes back into the ground through natrual recharge from rain.

This is what cities, housing developments and urban sprawl in general are doing to our precious water supplies.

This graph shows that the City of Rohnert Park has been overdrafting the groundwater basin since 1975. How do we know this? Because the City's own groundwater study demonstrates it.

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