One earthquake could cut off 70% of California's water supply

What do you get when you cross a record-setting drought with an earthquake? This question was recently asked on NPR,
and it isn't a pleasant visual. The devastation to the precarious water supply caused by a 7.8 magnitude quake on the
San Andreas Fault could sever all four aqueducts at once, cutting off more than 70 percent of the water sustaining
Southern California. This is a real threat and not some doomsday prediction. This means that an estimated 18 to 22 million
people are just one major earthquake away from being completely cut off from their water supply.

Pat Abbott, a professor of geology at San Diego State University, explains that much of California's water supply
crosses over one of the earth's most active fault systems. This situation has many engineers scrambling to put backup
plans into place in the event that this occurs. And the reality is that most of Southern California's water travels
through the aqueduct system in the northern part of the state. The concern escalating is that those systems run directly
over the San Andreas Fault.

When we review the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake where the land shifted a full 30 feet in 2 minutes, it isn't hard to
visual the structural damage to the aqueduct system this situation would bring. Getting to the broken aqueducts and
making the repairs could take a very long time, leaving most of.................................






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