Abstract
As California is sweltering through another hot, dry summer, the ground in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta begins to shake as a large earthquake strikes. Here, a network of river channels wend their way around dozens of as they flow down to San Francisco Bay. The locals call them islands but that not's not quite right, for the land in between the rivers has sunk well below the water level--in places by as much as 8 meters. In reality, they are immense pits, protected only by often-fragile earthen levees. Here, Brooks examines why the arteries sustaining the magnificent illusion that is California are under threat.
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