“It’s not often that you find a ‘water windfall,’ but we just did,” study co-author Robert Jackson told Stanford News Service. A Stanford University study released Monday said the state has three times more groundwater located in deep aquifers than earlier estimated. According to a Stanford news release, the water is 1,000 to 3,000 feet underground. Drought-stricken California might have a hidden water bonanza. Still, the researchers said the findings offer potential good news as California enters a fifth year of drought.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 28, 2016 02:48 UTC