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8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data

cwjohan 🎸

@cwjohan@mastodon.social replied · 5 days ago

@ProPublica Missing from this story is any sense of how much time remains before any important aquifers are entirely depleted. I realize it’s a complex situation, but people need to know how much time remains to solve the problem. Are we talking about 2 years, 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years or what?

Kierkegaanks regretfully

@Kierkegaanks@beige.party replied · 5 days ago

@ProPublica i wonder where it went

RevPudDudley

@RevPudDudley@mas.to replied · last week

@ProPublica One I'm going to read --
With our cleverness we've taken pure groundwater out, where it can't be replaced in many centuries, polluted it in every way, sent it downriver & back into the water cycle, possibly even got the planet off-balance.
When farmers hear the water table's dropping, they pump faster to get it before the other guy.
We sell land /water rights for other countries to grow .. their cattlefeed !
[Saudi, UAE]
Truly, madly, deeply priceless !

#dystopia
#environment