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Monday, 28 July 2014

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Groundwater Deficit in the Western United States 

Geology.com News [2014-07-28 08:01:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (50 visits) info

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“The map below [...] models the relative amount of water stored in underground aquifers in the continental United States. The wetness, or water content, is a depiction of the amount of groundwater on July 7, 2014, compared to the average from 1948 to 2009. Areas shown in blue have more abundant groundwater for this time

India’s Water Is Running Out 

State of the Planet [2010-12-14 20:12:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (26 visits) info
India is running “the largest water-mining project in the world”–and it cannot be sustained much longer, Columbia Water Center researcher Shama Perveen told an audience on Monday. That is mainly because farmers, who depend heavily on irrigation water drawn from underground aquifers, are using far more water than rainfall can replenish. Perveen’s talk, “Quantifying the
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