I love how they put the most important sentence at the very end of the article:<p>>>But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.<p>Because really, the fact that the land has risen a few millimeters, in and of itself, is not important, since it doesn't have any implications (at least for humans). What is important is that being able to measure this increase will allow us to gather water loss data from other regions.