Northern California's surface water is relatively easy to track. Mainly because we can see it: accumulating in the snowpack and flowing into reservoirs, rivers and other bodies of freshwater. By comparison, keeping tabs on groundwater is much harder because it exists deep beneath our feet in various aquifers and well systems.

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