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Newly released images created from NASA satellite data illustrate the staggering effect the California drought has had on groundwater supply in the state. 
  
 The images show the amount of water lost over the past 12 years, with different colors indicating severity over time. 
  
 According to NASA, the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River basins have been hit the hardest by the water loss, in part because of the increasing volume of groundwater being pumped out for farming. For the last three years, these regions have been losing a total of 4 trillion gallons of water per year. 
  
 The sun is reflected off the water remaining in an irrigation canal that is drying up near Yuba City, Calif. Image: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press 
  
 The data was compiled from two satellites that have been orbiting the Earth since 2002 as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, a collaboration between NASA and German space agency DLR. The satellites measure small fluctuations in Earth's gravitational field that are most often caused by variations in water supply. 
  
 In a podcast interview with Science Magazine, UC Irvine hydrologist James Famiglietti used the analogy of a bathroom scale to explain how GRACE uses highly sensitive gravity measurements to track changes in the amount of water stored underground in soil and rocks. 
  
 "Each [satellite] is about the size of a squashed minivan, and they orbit at about 400 kilometers. And what happens is that the change in mass on the surface, say, because of a big flood or a big load of snow on the mountains, actually pulls those spring-loaded weights towards Earth's surface," Famiglietti said. 
  
 The added danger in groundwater depletion is that unlike surface water, it is not easily replenishable. A UC Davis study published in July demonstrates how California farmers draining groundwater to compensate for losses in surface water will diminish the state's ability to withstand future droughts. 
  
 California is currently experiencing the third year of one of the most severe short-term droughts ever recorded. Data from U.S. Drought Monitor shows that as of Sept. 30, 82% of the state is facing extreme or exceptional drought conditions. 
  
 But the state is not the only area being plagued by critical drops in groundwater reserves. Data collected by GRACE indicates that the supply of groundwater is in decline worldwide, especially in regions that rely on it most. 
  
 "We're seeing it happening all over the world. It's happening in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world where we rely on those aquifers. But we're able to see now the impact we're having on this over exploitation," Famiglietti told Science Magazine. ||||| Areas in red are seriously short of water in this image from NASA. The colors represent the deficits (in millimeters per year) in total water shortage in western states from Sept. 2011 to Sept. 2014. (Photo: NASA JPL/Caltech) 
  
 About 11 trillion gallons of water is needed to end the drought in California, NASA announced Tuesday. 
  
 That's about 130,000 Rose Bowls full of water. 
  
 Even with the recent storms that have hit the state, they aren't nearly enough to end the multiyear drought, scientists say. 
  
 "It takes years to get into a drought of this severity, and it will likely take many more big storms, and years, to crawl out of it," said Jay Famiglietti, a scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
  
 NASA used data from its "Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment" satellites to develop the first-ever calculation of this kind — the volume of water required to end a drought. 
  
 As of the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor, released Thursday, 99.7% of the state of California was in a drought. However, this week's monitor may show some improvement once the rain and snow from last week's "Pineapple Express" storm is factored in. 
  
 NASA released the drought information Tuesday in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. 
  
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Even the biggest reservoir in the US wouldn't provide enough water to replace what's been lost in California's drought. In fact, you'd need 1.5 times that much water, or 11 trillion gallons, to do so, according to NASA satellite findings. Another way to put it in perspective: It's 130,000 Rose Bowls' worth of water, USA Today notes. It's also more water than California uses every year, even with 38 million residents. This is the first time the amount of water needed to end a drought has ever been calculated, NASA reports. The study involved two satellites tracking the planet's gravitational field; small changes in the field are associated with changes in the water supply, Mashable reports. Each year since 2011, the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins have lost about 4 trillion gallons. What's more, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is just half of what earlier estimates suggested, and it's "one of the three lowest on record and the worst since 1977, when California's population was half what it is now," a researcher says. That means less snow melt and more absorption of sunlight into the ground, helping warm the planet and leading to drier conditions that make it more difficult to get snow water to reservoirs, he adds. "It takes years to get into a drought of this severity, and it will likely take many more big storms, and years, to crawl out of it," says the water study's leader.